METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE RESEARCH FORMATION AND REGIONAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION

Abstract

The formation and functioning methodological aspects of the market for livestock products should be viewed as a system, combining the producers’ interaction of agricultural products and market institutions in order to ensure food security, guaranteed access of the population to meat and dairy products in sufficient quantity and quality necessary for nation health. Providing Ukraine’s population with livestock products and expanding the potential and market real capacity for these products requires the development and methodological approaches application for determination of market capacity forming factors. Development formation of the livestock products market is based on scientific abstraction methods, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, logical and evolutionary approaches to the economic phenomena cognition and processes. The sustainable economic development methodological foundations make it possible to single out the food market as the research independent object, to justify the need to develop the organizational and economic foundations of its development in modern conditions, which reflects in the general cycle: production, distribution, exchange and consumption. The livestock products market is the integral part of food market, which is socio-economic relations combination of arising in the production process, processing, marketing and livestock products consumption. Thus, the livestock products market functions as an integrated subsystem, which has its own characteristics, purpose unity, close production and technological links, organizational and economic relationships, aimed at improving the social conditions of society living. Only if the methodological support is provided, scientific research can have an objective character and achieve a certain result. The livestock products’ market research is based on the methodology as a single, logic integrated interaction, principles and methods, which together constitute the logically completed system for the object study, starting from the goal, arising from this task and ending with obtaining concrete theoretical and applied results. From the science point of view, the methodology is a complex and multistage education, encompasses a number of cognitive procedures methods and operations by means of which it is possible to give a deep and comprehensive characterization of the phenomenon or process being studied. The basis of both methodological and theoretical research was the cognition dialectical method, an economic theory based on the objective economic laws fundamental provisions, the development concept of the agro-industrial complex and Ukraine’ agrarian market, scientific developments of domestic scientists on the formation of food market.