Open AccessMicroelement composition of arid pastures: impact on productive qualities of Kazakh white-headed steers
Author(s) -
И.Ф. Горлов,
Gilyan V. Fedotova,
A.A. Kaydulina,
А.К. Натыров,
L.F. Grigoryan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/341/1/012170
Subject(s) - livestock , fodder , beef cattle , agriculture , arid , population , food security , agroforestry , production (economics) , agricultural science , geography , biology , agronomy , zoology , ecology , economics , demography , macroeconomics , sociology
The article describes the results of a scientific experiment in the beef production in arid areas of the Volgograd Trans-Volga region. Being one of the main branches of agriculture, livestock provides the population with food of animal origin and is a raw material base for corresponding branches of the processing industry. The need to intensify beef cattle breeding is a nationwide task aimed at solving the challenges of food security through innovative methods and tools used for feeding and breeding beef cattle in arid areas of the southern Russia. The article substantiates the need to improve the fodder base for breeding beef cattle in loose and tie-up housing. Feeds enriched with microelements for the intensive growth and development of animals have been found to have quite good effect on the live weight gain and fleshiness of steers. Therefore, the norms of feeding and microelement supplements developed for the rations will enable producing more meat raw materials of high nutritional value in local climatic and natural conditions.