The cooperation of family farms as a way of solving the economic problem of-sufficiency of the country's milk
When entering the market economy, the organizational and legal forms in dairy production have undergone changes. In place of dairy farms of state farms and collective farms came large capitalist enterprises in the form of dairy agricultural holdings, changed the production of dairy sector. There was a significant variety of small and medium enterprises with their specialization. The need for the establishment of agricultural purchase and marketing cooperatives to ensure the purchase of milk in personal subsidiary and peasant (farmer) farms has increased. A number of subjects of the Russian Federation provide state support for small businesses, adopt legal and economic acts, including grants for the creation or expansion of the material base of the dairy cooperative, to expand the procurement of raw milk and increase its supply to dairy enterprises. Measures are determined to increase the number of cows in small farms and increase the marketability of milk produced in rural households.