Value added and technological diversification of the agro-industrial complex: issues of methodology

Issue № 3, 2025, article № 5, pages 42-52

Section: Economic mechanism of managing

Language: Russian

Original language title: ДОБАВЛЕННАЯ СТОИМОСТЬ И ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ДИВЕРСИФИКАЦИЯ АПК: ВОПРОСЫ МЕТОДОЛОГИИ

Keywords: AGRICULTURE, VALUE ADDED, TECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY, SECONDARY MATERIAL RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION, BIOTECH CLUSTER

Abstract: Agriculture plays an important role both in ensuring national food security and overcoming agflation and solving critical macroeconomic problems. The purpose of the article is to justify high tech as a means of accumulating value added. It argues that the scale of value added accumulation depends on the depth of technological processing rather than the difference between revenue and costs so that the deeper processing the higher the value added. Therefore, the technological policy in agriculture aimed either at its modernization and at the introduction of new product technologies is very important. Technological diversification is a promising path for technological development of agriculture. High tech diversification aimed at high and highest technological processing is considered as most favorable for the accumulation of value added. The author explains the multiple intra industry and macroeconomic effects that result from high tech diversification such as increasing investment opportunities, risks adjustment, reduced environmental damage, accompanying the existing mode of agriculture, increased private and public benefits, S&M development, reduced dependence on import and many others. The author proposes measures for technological and economic development of agriculture aimed at achieving this pathway.

Authors: Boiko Irina Viktorovna