TY - Data T1 - Feed production and botany basics A1 - Documentation Information Center DO - 10.12389/ariddc.02367 PY - 2026 DA - 2026-09-16 PB - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center AB - The Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in its Resolution On Measures for the Further Development of Soviet Agriculture, pointed out that the most rapid increase in livestock production, and above all in publicly owned livestock husbandry, is of exceptionally great importance to the state and constitutes the most urgent task currently facing the Party and the Government in the sphere of agriculture. This task can be successfully accomplished only through the establishment of a stable fodder base capable of supplying all types of feed required by livestock husbandry.Forage production includes obtaining feed from natural forage lands (hay and green fodder from natural hayfields and pastures), as well as the production of feed within forage and field crop rotation systems, namely: succulent feeds (root crops, potatoes, silage crops, and forage melons), grain feeds (oats, barley, etc.), coarse feeds from field crops (straw and chaff), and hay and green fodder from rotation grasslands.It thus becomes evident that the principal source of livestock feed is the plant world, and the study of plants constitutes the subject matter of a science known as botany.Soviet botanists study the life of plants and apply the achievements of this science to the national economy.Therefore, botany, as the science of plants and as the theoretical foundation of all branches of crop cultivation, contributes to the development of forage production and to the establishment of a stable fodder base.Thus, a direct connection is established between botany and forage production.Biology is the science that studies the laws governing the origin and development of living nature. It investigates nature in its eternal movement and change. It studies the laws of development of the diverse living world, from the simplest to the most complex organisms.Until the eighteenth century, the metaphysical view of nature dominated. According to this view, the entire world was i DB - EGIDC UR - https://data.dcxjegi.cn/portal/metadata/7cea828d-157f-4e0b-879c-ea5559899e31 ER -