GLOBAL TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF RABBIT BREEDING

DOI 10.32651/193-93

Issue № 3, 2019, article № 18, pages 93-98

Section: Foreign news

Language: Russian

Original language title: МИРОВЫЕ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ КРОЛИКОВОДСТВА

Keywords: RABBIT BREEDING, DEVELOPMENT TRENDS, TRADITIONAL FOOD, INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, FARMING, INTENSIVE BREEDING TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract: Nowadays the rabbit breeding industry is the most promising direction of development of meat livestock. Rabbit breeding along with sustainable profit allows providing the population with quality products. Rabbit breeding is an industry that requires a special culture of production and partly serves as an indicator of the state of economic development of the country. This article discusses the development of rabbit breeding in China, USA and Canada, Europe and Russia. It is noted that international trade in rabbit products is poorly developed: about 15 ‰ of rabbit products are sold on the world market. It is established that in recent years appear large-scale enterprises for breeding rabbits began to, but their number is still small. Despite the progress in the development of rabbit breeding, there are constraints to the development of the industry: the lack of traditions of rabbit consumption, the lack of qualified professionals, underdeveloped breeding and genetic work in a number of countries. Nevertheless, in many countries rabbit breeding is becoming an independent and industrial branch of livestock breeding: criteria, standards, techniques and technologies of rabbit breeding are becoming common, technical and technological innovations are becoming available; there is a dynamic exchange of information.

Authors: Velkina Liudmila Vladimirovna