STAGES OF POULTRY FARMING DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE OF THE SECOND HALF OF 20th – AT THE BEGINING OF THE 21st CENTURIES

INTRODUCTION The poultry industry in Ukraine is currently at the forefront of animal husbandry. In search of the effective ways of further development of this industry in Ukraine, a detailed rethinking of the accumulated advanced scientific experience of poultry farming in the historical retrospective is relevant. In 1919, M.F. Ivanov in a clear sequence has put arguments forward evidence of the benefits and necessity of development of poultry farming 1 . In Ukraine, in the period 1923–1928, the number of poultry increased in general (with certain fluctuations over the years) 2 . The possibilities of the republic for the export of poultry products also expanded. In particular, during the 1924–1926, more than a thousand carts of eggs had exported to Germany, England and Austria 3 . Therefore, the need to increase the production of poultry and improve its profitability was obvious. In order to increase the quantity and thus reduce the cost of poultry production, it was necessary to study the ways of poultry feeding and keeping, to find cheap feeds, and so on. That is, the poultry industry needed scientific support, and in 1930 the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Poultry was organized in the Ukrainian SSR, which subsequently undergone reorganization and was transformed into a Ukrainian Scientific Research Station of Poultry, and then, in 1959, into Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Poultry again 4 .