Key problems of agro-industrial complex of russia

Issue № 5, 2019, article № 1, pages 4-21

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ АГРОПРОМЫШЛЕННОГО КОМПЛЕКСА РОССИИ

Keywords: AGRICULTURE, AGRARIAN AND INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, RURAL TERRITORIES, AGRARIAN POLICY, IMPORT SUBSTITUTION, AGRICULTURAL GROUNDS

Abstract: Despite obvious positive dynamics of the last years, agro-industrial complex of Russia continues to come under influence of a number of negative factors which slow down development of the industry and do not allow using all available potential fully. In this research the attempt is made not only to reveal and estimate key problems which domestic agriculture faces, but to give offers on their elimination. The main conclusions are supported with the Russian and foreign official statistics and also the calculations made on their basis. In the real research it is featured the analysis of agrarian policy of other countries, their progress and achievements in the field of steady development of agro-industrial complex, ensuring food safety and sustainable development of rural territories. In general, as show results of the carried-out work, the situation which developed in the Russian agriculture testifies to the following obvious trends: 1) monopolism of large agro holdings which are the main (about 90‰) recipients of the state subsidies grows; 2) degradation of the village continues – people leave rural areas in search of higher earnings and the best living conditions; 3) availability of quality food to a general population continues to decrease. The specified processes are imposed on technological backwardness, falling of investment activity, imperfection of the legislation and lack of the long-term development strategy of the agricultural industry. The measures proposed in the specified article, are designed to provide rational and thrifty use of natural resources, to increase quality of life of the population, to increase revenues of producers of agricultural products and to make agro-industrial complex of Russia of one of the most dynamically developing branches of the national economy.

Authors: Babkin Konstantin Anatolevich