The provision of local population with the high-quality and healthy food products, especially with the animal protein, is one of the main priorities of the Azerbaijani Government. This article analyzes the current situation of the poultry industry in Azerbaijan, especially the breeding poultry sector, legislation, public policy and regulatory mechanisms in this area, the on-going situation with imports and exports, the challenges faced by the industry, factors affecting the sustainable development of poultry in the context of new global challenges. The analyses of the other important issues related to the breeding poultry are also included. The article also focuses on the problems of local entrepreneurs involved in the poultry breeding, as well as commercial poultry and egg producers, their concerns, opinions and proposals on finding out the solutions or ways to overcome current problems. The issues of the local poultry market, mostly depending on import, increasing the potential of poultry breeding through development of more productive mutual relationship and other important aspects were also analyzed and the appropriate proposals were suggested.

The study of per capita income in households is of great importance in terms of analyzing the welfare of the population in urban and rural areas and assessing social inequality. In the article the average indicators for per capita income for households in the country, including rural and urban areas, indicators of variation, the Decile coefficient, the Palm ratio, and the Gini coefficient were calculated as a measure of social inequality and the results were compared in urban and rural areas.

Intensification of international competition, limited resources, climate change and other challenges to sustainable development of agricultural production, along with the expansion of the use of resource-saving technologies, requires the transformation of traditional agricultural management systems into effective management models based on the use of integrated management systems (IMS). Existing practices are mainly IMS developed for manufacturing and service enterprises, where the customer (end user) and his requirements are mostly known. The article describes the IMS based on the ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015 standards of the Office of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is the largest government body that directly or indirectly affects the interests of a wide range of stakeholders from subordinate organizations to ordinary farmers. The uniqueness of the IMS implementation model at the level of government agencies created a number of methodological difficulties, overcoming which using the PD-C-A approach helped the successful completion of the project. The article discusses the key elements of an integrated management system, provides examples of risk assessment and environmental aspects, a process passport and other documents related to the implementation of the project.