The main problems and features of the global and local meat production

Abstract

Abstract The average annual increase of 83 million population during the last 10 years, growth in meat demand due to the improvement of living standards promote the production, consumption and international trade of meat to rise with every coming year. However, the absolute and relative decline of natural resource potential, relative decrease of the rural population, strict demands towards correct agricultural practice (the global partnership for good agricultural practice) require new solutions for mitigation of external challenges and factors impacting the production efficiency. Among suggestions for the further development of meat production the unification of indicators and assessment methodology of natural resource potential, growth of level of centralization and concentration of production are of great importance. The article discusses the key issues of the modern era in the search for ways to mitigate the imbalances of production and consumption of meat. This research shows the main global and local issues of the development and structural trends in the production of meat, which is a valuable food of animal origin. Indicators of the Republic of Armenia are discussed in the global context, because there are problems that are general both Armenia and other countries and areas of the World. Such problems of meat production were the subject of this study.