Some Aspects of the Poverty of Agricultural Workers in the Arctic Regions

Issue № 11, 2022, article № 13, pages 97-102

Section: Development of rural territories

Language: Russian

Original language title: НЕКОТОРЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ БЕДНОСТИ РАБОТНИКОВ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА В АРКТИЧЕСКИХ РЕГИОНАХ

Keywords: RURAL AREAS, POVERTY, SUBSISTENCE MINIMUM, WAGES, ARCTIC REGIONS

Abstract: The Arctic regions, being priority geostrategic territories of the Russian Federation, play a crucial role in ensuring sustainable development and concentrate the resource, transport, military, environmental and strategic potential of our country. At the same time, living and working conditions, agricultural activities are incomparably more severe compared to the rest of the country. In this regard, special attention should be paid to rural areas and the population living there. An assessment of the level of poverty in rural areas of the Arctic regions (Murmansk oblast, Nenets autonomous okrug, Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug, Chukotka autonomous okrug) showed that rural areas remain a place of concentration of poverty. In the Murmansk oblast, the share of the rural population receiving incomes below the subsistence minimum is 24%, in the Nenets autonomous okrug – 21%, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug – 14%, in the Chukotka autonomous okrug – 13%. A comparative analysis of wages in the economy of the region as a whole and separately in agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing and fish farming allowed us to confirm that disappointing trends about a significant backlog in wages and chronic underfunding of the agricultural sector in the whole country are typical in the Arctic regions, with the exception of the Murmansk oblast.

Authors: Gagiev Nikolai Nikolaevich, Goncharenko Liudmila Petrovna, Naumov Sergei Nikolaevich, SHestakova Anna Aleksandrovna