Veronika Bugina , Dr. oec ., Peteris Rivza , Dr. habil. During the implementation of these tasks, groups of programs and activities will be developed that consist of scientific developments, program activities, concepts and other projects. The quality of plant cultivation and cattle-breeding products is characterized by their usefulness, harmlessness and their esthetic and economic properties. These factors affect also the competitiveness of food products both in the domestic and the foreign market. Consequently, the quality of foodstuffs is affected by raw materials, processing, storage conditions, transportation and packaging.
Plant cultivation provides the food industry with grain, sugar beets, potatoes and other products.
It also provides the cattle-breeding industry with forage. The output of high quality cattle-breeding production is furthered by correct, balanced feeding of livestock, modern and accurate initial processing of the obtained production and by a timely and precise system of veterinary control. Investigations in the field of crossbreeding of cattle will be continued in order to obtain qualitative meat at minimum consumption of feed. In pig-breeding, studies will be carried out in the field of feeding and selection. Studies on the optimal feed rations for the production of broiler meat will be continued in poultry-farming.