Ensuring growth of agricultural production in the region on the basis of increasing the efficiency of resource use

Issue № 3, 2020, article № 5, pages 47-54

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ РОСТА ПРОИЗВОДСТВА СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОЙ ПРОДУКЦИИ В РЕГИОНЕ НА ОСНОВЕ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ РЕСУРСОИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ

Keywords: AGRARIAN REGIONAL POLICIES, GROWTH ACCOUNTING, AGRICULTURAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY, PRODUCTION FUNCTION ESTIMATION

Abstract: The article analyzes the influence of various factors on the change in agricultural production. The sum of the elasticity coefficients of such factors as land, labour, fixed assets, and material resources, natural and climatic potential indicates a diminishing return on expanding the scale of production. It is shown that when the technology demonstrates a constant return on scale, the labour force in the obtained Cobb-Douglas function affects the volume of production to a greater extent than investment in fixed assets. Marginal labour productivity shows that in the regions of the region with the highest climatic potential, the increase in output per additional unit of labour expended is 12-15‰ higher than the average value for the Novosibirsk Region. Based on the prevailing tendencies of increasing fixed assets and agricultural development guidelines, the authors determined the optimal size of labour resources for the medium-term forecast of socio-economic development of the region in order to ensure the growth of agricultural production. According to model calculations, it is necessary to create 30‰ more jobs by 2024 compared with the target value of the regional state program for the development of agriculture. At the same time, labour productivity will increase by 20‰ relative to the existing level. For this, 2.9 million roubles of investments in fixed assets should form 1 workplace.

Authors: CHirkova Irina Grigorevna, Nevzorova Svetlana Anatolevna, SHelkovnikov Sergei Aleksandrovich, Tikhonchuk Marina Anatolevna, Kulazhenok Igor Nikolaevich