Analysis of the economic efficiency of primary and deep processing of bast crops

Issue № 7, 2021, article № 8, pages 66-74

Language: Russian

Original language title: АНАЛИЗ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ПЕРВИЧНОЙ И ГЛУБОКОЙ ПЕРЕРАБОТКИ ЛУБЯНЫХ КУЛЬТУР

Keywords: BAST CROPS, LONG-LEGGED FLAX, OILSEED FLAX, TECHNICAL HEMP, PRIMARY AND DEEP PROCESSING, PROFIT, PROFITABILITY, TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Abstract: The authors analyzed the economic efficiency of the primary and deep processing of flax, oilseed flax and technical hemp. Since 2010, there has been an annual increase in the acreage of bast crops, and the list of subjects of the Russian Federation that sow these crops is also increasing. However, flax growers have difficulty finding markets. Some enterprises export their products, while others diversify their production. There are also those who, having not found a market, do not work at full capacity, reducing the volume of processing. In the second half of 2020, due to a sharp drop in prices for long and short fiber, there was another deterioration in the financial condition of flax mills. Taking into account the difficult economic situation, the state of the industry and the material and technical base of processing enterprises, the article determines which bast crops are effectively grown, in what volume, on what technological equipment they are more efficiently processed, as well as what type of fiber will be profitable in modern economic conditions. Primary processing of flax into long and short fibers and deep processing of short fibers are profitable, with full provision of enterprises with raw materials. Deep processing of short flax fiber into cotonine significantly increases the profitability of production. Processing of technical hemp into the same type of hemp with its subsequent cotonization at existing sales prices is unprofitable, and the profitability of processing oilseed flax into the same type of fiber depends on the amount of capital costs for production.

Authors: Basova Natalia Vladimirovna, Novikov Eduard Valerevich, Bezbabchenko Aleksandr Vladislavovich