Abstract

This article is an attempt at an interdisciplinary study of the livestock sector of the peasant household in the European North of Russia, supported by its reliable statistical markers of ongoing processes. Arrays of digital data with valid goals and objectives of the study with a retrospective depth were subjected to statistical processing using correlation analysis. The cross-sectional analysis covered data on a variety of studied factors (the number of farm animals in households ranked by species composition of livestock, age groups and the number of heads, crop areas ranked by their size, the proportion of farms with or without their own hired workers, the presence of fishing activities, volumes of field and sown areas, as well as the numerical expression of comparable indicators in intersectoral relationships, including: per farm, per 100 capita, per horse, horses and cows per farm, etc.). The factors that influenced the organizational foundations of the leading branches of peasant production are analyzed. The question is raised about the nature of changes in the number and sex and age structure of the herd of the peasant economy during the years of the New Economic Policy. Particular attention is paid to the issues of the qualitative state of the livestock and changes in the repair base of livestock breeding. The dependence of the livestock of a peasant household on the size of the crop, the availability of workers and meadow areas has been revealed. At the same time, it is noted that the completion of the restoration processes in animal husbandry did not lead to qualitative changes in the economic structure of the northern village, the basis of which was a small parcel closed within the framework of subsistence production. The patterns identified by the authors can serve as an incentive for a further study of applied sectors of the naСаблин tional economy in the European North of Russia (development of the processing industry, trade, fodder production, transport networks, light industry, animal science, veterinary medicine, etc.).

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