DYNAMICS OF WORLD BARLEY PRODUCTION
Barley is a valuable grain forage crop. Due to its highly plastic and adaptive qualities, as well as nutritional properties and a variety of economic and commercial uses, barley remains a popular agricultural crop both in world agriculture and in the agriculture of the Russian Federation. The relevance of the cultivation of barley is also confirmed by the sown areas occupied by its culture, which over the past three years have maintained a tendency to increase on a global scale. Barley has a wide economic use. It is primarily grown for livestock feed. Related areas of barley cultivation in Russia and the world are the brewing industry (malt extract production), the food industry (cereals, bakery, confectionery, coffee surrogate). The article presents a detailed analysis of the dynamics of barley production for the period from 2015 to 2020, reveals the dependence of the gross grain harvest on the yield and size of barley sown areas. The article presents up-to-date data on the volume of sown areas, gross harvest and barley yield in world production. Significant variations were found for all indicators. Separately, a detailed analysis of the studied parameters for the ten leading countries in the production of winter barley is given