Russian food security on the market of milk and dairy products

Abstract

The paper deals with the issues of country’s food security that is the most important indicator of national security of the state. The authors justified the fact that food security governance is a priority direction of the Russian state policy. The dynamics of the total production of dairy products in Russia was characterized, and the indicators of product exports and imports were analyzed. The level of actual per caput consumption of milk and dairy products was evaluated. The dynamics of the level of use of average annual productive capacity of the companies that produce particular types of dairy products and milk production in the context of farm categories was studied.