The economic problems connected with transition to market economy, cause the necessity of search of new forms of integration of the making
and processing enterprises taking into account the level of their development reached nowadays and specifics of regional conditions. Producers
of meat raw materials, trying to protect itself from dictatorship of exclusively low prices, create own processing enterprises of low power, look for
new channels and sales markets of the production. As a result of it, and also because of reduction in farms of a livestock of animals and decrease
in their efficiency, capacities of large meat-processing plants will increasingly be underused.