Assessment of socio-economic parameters of the state of agricultural consumer cooperation

Issue № 2, 2024, article № 8, pages 78-88

Section: Managing forms in market economy

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОЦЕНКА СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ ПАРАМЕТРОВ СОСТОЯНИЯ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОЙ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКОЙ КООПЕРАЦИИ

Keywords: HOUSEHOLDS OF THE POPULATION, FARMS, SMALL ENTERPRISES, SMALL FORMS OF MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION, AGRICULTURAL CONSUMER COOPERATIVES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRY, RURAL AREAS

Abstract: Small forms of management are the basis for the development of agriculture and rural areas. The results of the Agricultural Micro-Census of 2021 showed a significant reduction in the number of small enterprises and farms. The decrease in the number of producers is noted precisely among small farms. At the same time, there is a tendency to increase the area per small enterprise and farm, which indicates the processes of concentration in agriculture. But small forms of management have low marketability indicators compared to large commodity producers, low availability of facilities for storing agricultural products. They are only formally equal market participants. In order to strengthen market positions, small business entities should use the reserves of cooperation as the main tool that ensures the increase in the efficiency of their economic activities. The institutional conditions created for agricultural cooperation (the law on agricultural cooperation, state support) did not ensure the mass participation of small business entities in agricultural cooperatives. In our opinion, the increase in involvement in agricultural consumer cooperatives is associated with the adjustment of the conditions of state support for agricultural consumer cooperatives, ensuring the priority of cooperation in state agrarian policy, strengthening the role of competence centers in the field of agricultural cooperation and support for farmers and municipalities in cultivating and transforming households into high-quality farms, training in the technology of creating cooperatives and popularization of cooperation in agriculture.

Authors: Moiseeva Olga Aleksandrovna