ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF DAIRY CATTLE BREEDING IN THE REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN AND WAYS TO SOLVE THE REGION FOOD SECURITY IN THIS PRODUCT
The agro-industrial complex of Dagestan is the most important sector of the economy of the Republic of Dagestan, largely determining the state of the entire national economy and the socio-economic level of the vast majority of the population. Over 18.0% of the gross regional product is produced in agriculture, more than 272 thousand people are employed (about 30% of the number of people employed in the entire economy), 12.7% of fixed production assets are concentrated. About 55% of the population lives in rural areas of the republic (27% in Russia as a whole). The peculiarities of the natural and climatic conditions of Dagestan predetermined the originality of the main directions of its economic development. As for dairy cattle products, the main producer of milk in the republic are personal subsidiary farms. But in these farms there are mainly Red steppe and Caucasian brown breeds that do not differ in large milk yields and, with a few exceptions, breeds of foreign breeding. And these small forms of farms.