Cultivation of soybean in unfavourable condition and their nutrient value

The research work is concerned with identifying advantages of soybean as fodder culture according to its botanical characteristics. Over the past decades, the use of soybean in the feed and food industry has significantly grown. Production of soybean meal in the world is constantly increasing. Such a dominant position of soybean and its products processing is undoubtedly associated with their high quality, especially the quality of the protein and its amino acid composition. An important task of agricultural production is a constant increase in the production of high-protein grain of leguminous crops, among which soybean has come first in the world. In the world market, soybean and soy flour are in great demand, providing significant foreign exchange earnings to major soybean producers - the USA, Brazil, China and Argentina. The popularity of soy is that its seeds contain 35-50% of high-grade protein, 17-25% fat and up to 30% carbohydrates. The nutritional value of soy protein is good, although the quality is not quite as high as animal protein. Considering the situation it should be mentioned that very actual in today‘s to solve cultivation problems in all regions. In Kazakhstan, soybeans started sowing in the thirties of the last century, but due to the absence of zoned varieties and due to the large labor intensity of the republic's farming operations, the cultivation of the republic was abandoned. But already in the mid-sixties of the twentieth century, the country's agriculture had the necessary grades and a powerful machine-tractor park for cultivating tilled crops. Experimental studies and production experiments of those years have shown that great opportunities for cultivating early soybean varieties are found in the northern and eastern regions of Kazakhstan. Soy is a light-loving plant, but early-ripening varieties satisfactorily tolerate a moderate insolation intensity[...]Gamtos mokslų fakultetasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta