Sheep Farming in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (the North Caucasus Region)
The article investigates sheep farming in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), North Caucasus Region, drawing conclusions from factors such as the necessity for breeding sheep in that territory and state support for the breeding industry. It adds that mutton and wool are among the important agricultural products which the KBR is developing. In the critique's view, that republic has encountered difficult economic travails while attempting to form functional sheep farms within its agro-industrial complex (AIC). The paper says that as a pre-condition to developing these farms, the KBR had to carry out fundamental theoretical studies, offer practical suggestions, and set up a suitable market infrastructure for their effective operation. Moreover, to transform the sheep farms into economic entities, the republic had to acquire scientific information about the necessary support processes. In covering the sheepbreeding issue, the document also has dealt with the farms' work-related functioning as a regional AIC element. This has led the study to present a conceptual evaluation of resource industries, based on the theory of market relations and on a comparative economic interchange on local and global sheep-breeding. In its final adjustment before this publication, the blueprint compared KBR's sheep-breeding data with the results from the adjacent Karchay-Chekessian Republic.