Authors: N. A. Nikonova
Saint Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract. Modern features of the territorial structure of milk production in a separate region are considered. The purpose of the study was to analyze the dynamics of dairy cattle breeding in the Leningrad region in the territorial aspect for 2008–2018. The main method of research was economic and statistical analysis of data and their comparative evaluation. Results. The specificity of quantitative and qualitative changes in milk production by category of farms has been revealed. In the context of municipal districts of the Leningrad region, they were grouped depending on the growth rate (decrease) in the volume of milk produced in farms of all categories in 2018 compared to 2008. Adverse trends in the development of dairy cattle breeding in agricultural organizations of the region were noted, as their share in milk production decreased in 13 municipal districts of the Leningrad region. Changes in the volume of state support for the dairy cattle industry in the region in the territorial aspect for the specified period were determined. It is revealed that, despite the subsidies in milk production, increased its intra-regional localization. As a result, in 2018, more than 50 % of the volume of regional milk production was provided by only 4 districts of the Leningrad region. In the remaining 13 districts, there are no prerequisites for employment and rural development, and the reduction in milk production in rural areas has reached 48.3 %. The necessary measures are proposed to smooth out the territorial unevenness in milk production as a condition for overcoming the depressiveness of rural development. The scientific novelty of the study is to assess the nature of the emerging territorial features of the placement of milk production in the Leningrad region and its intraregional differentiation.
Keywords: territorial differentiation, municipal districts, milk production, agricultural organizations, structural shifts, subsidizing production.
For citation: Nikonova N. A. K voprosu o strukturnykh sdvigakh v territorial’nom razmeshchenii proizvodstva moloka v usloviyakh Leningradskoy oblasti [On the issue of structural shifts in the territorial distribution of milk production in the Leningrad region] // Agrarian Bulletin of the Urals. 2020. No. 09 (200). Pp. 92–102. DOI: 10.32417/1997-4868-2020-200-9-92-102. (In Russian.)
