PRODUCTIVE QUALITIES OF CATTLE WHEN USING BIOLOGICALAND ALPINE PASTURES OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA
One of the obstacles to the development of animal husbandry is its low investment attractiveness. Livestock production is the most labour intensive industry with a long payback period, therefore this sector is poorly developed. The main reasons hindering the increase of volume and increase of efficiency of beef production is the small number of beef cattle, insufficient technical and technological equipment of industry, the poor state and the use of natural fodder lands, a weak forage base, low productivity potential of animals, nonequivalence of exchange of results of the extractive and processing enterprises. The results of researches of staff of Department of mountainous grassland management and livestock production revealed that under the action of high anthropogenic pressure, due to abnormal unsystematic use of mountain pastures and the absence of measures of care, degradation of vegetation cover, leading to reduced sustainability of ecosystems, decline of pasture productivity. But an important feature in the approaches to the structure of the livestock and its fodder base is the high proportion of the most useful and cheapest feed. Introduction to pasture agroores and ek-strasola in the experimental group of animals, contributed to the optimization of biological fac tors (primarily feeding the animals on improved pastures), leading to absolute and relative increase in the amount of energy feed that is used directly for the formation of products, while reducing total cost of feed per unit of output.