EFFICIENCY OF CONCENTRATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

Issue № 9, 2017, article № 7, pages 68-77

Section: ABROAD

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ КОНЦЕНТРАЦИИ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОГО ПРОИЗВОДСТВА

Keywords: CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION, COUNTRY ECONOMY, JOINT-STOCK COMPANY, COOPERATIVE, STATE FARM, COLLECTIVE FARM, LAND REFORM

Abstract: The research objective is the analysis of activity agricultural producers from the point of view of concentration of land resources, a cattle livestock. The comparative analysis of the happened changes during reforms is made beginning from a state-farm and collective-farm system in Russia and Kazakhstan. Economic and social consequences of reforms are noted, the damage to agricultural production from reforming is defined. Only on production of meat Kazakhstan has received less because of disorder of a state-farm system 15.4 million tons of meat, or 79‰ of all production. Advantages of collective conducting production are shown. Data in five years on economic activity of the joint-stock company and limited liability partnership, on the one hand, and peasant farms, with another are provided. The facts testify in favour of collective farming and concentration of capital goods. The conclusion is drawn, that Russia and Kazakhstan have uncontrollable agricultural production in the form of hundreds of thousands of small-scale country enterprises and hundreds of averages by the size of associations and joint-stock companies today. Agriculture hardly comes to indicators of pre-perestroika state-farm and collective-farm level. The leadership of Kazakhstan has headed for association of peasants in cooperatives. It is a difficult way and expensive to the state. Other way is further concentration of capital goods which is inevitable and will result in success. The tendencies observed in the USA, Canada, Europe - reduction of number of farms and increase in their sizes. Regularity is the concentration of production leads to growth of its efficiency

Authors: Spektor Mikhail Davidovich