Karbivska U.
Associate professor, Candidate of Agricaltural Sciences "Vasyl Stefanyk
Precarpathian National University" Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Turak O.
Associate professor, Candidate of Agricaltural Sciences "Vasyl Stefanyk
Precarpathian National University" Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Hryhoriv Y.
Candidate of Agricaltural Sciences "Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National
University" Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
CHANGES OF FERTILITY RATES ON SOD-PODZOLIC SOILS DURING
THE CULTIVATION OF CEREAL GRASSES
Introduction. It has commonly known that feed production, as a branch of
agrarian manufacturing, should to provide livestock with sufficient amount of
qualitative and balanced in content nutrient, fodders. The main development areas of
this industry are intensification of field and meadow fodder production on the basics
of advanced growing technologies of fodder crops and improving the structure and
quality of grass stand [1, 45-52].
In recent years, fodder production in the most farms does not fully provide the
needs of livestock farming; where is always a lack of fodders, low quality, and uneven
income during the seasons, high costs and insufficient variety. The main reason of this
condition are not stable yield of fodder crops, which depends primarily on weather
conditions, non-compliance and improper resource support of their cultivation
technologies [2, 478-479].
Therefore, to improve affairs in livestock production and further increasing
productivity of cattle in farms of all forms of ownership, it is necessary to radically
change the attitude to questions of fodder production and ensure the development of
this industry.
It should be noted that today's situation in fodder production reflects the
conditions of the livestock in Ukraine and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well. Within the
condition of permanent structure reforms, volatility of prices on livestock products,
lack of the permanent markets for sales, sharp decline in livestock, fodder production
lost their industrial direction of development and systematic production of fodder raw
materials and fodders in general. Over the past fifteen years, cattle stock including
cows in the region decreased by two times (in Ukraine, respectively, by 2.6 times) [3,
55-57].
During the period of 2000-2016, the sown area of fodder crops decreased in three
times. In the overall structure of crop area, their share has decreased threefold to 8.1%
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