Optimal placement of agricultural production is a successful guarantee of providing the population not only with affordable and high-quality domestic food, but also preserving the rural way of life and employment of the population. Currently, large organizations, absorbing small producers, peasant farms, and private farms in rural areas, deprive local residents of jobs, destroying the competitive environment in the sale of agricultural products. In modern conditions, the placement of agricultural production is mostly spontaneous and is accompanied by competition. In order to preserve the way of rural life, employment of the population, the attractiveness of work in rural areas, providing the population with quality and affordable food, it is proposed to expand and update existing agricultural towns through state regulation, as well as create new ones in localities based on advanced agricultural organizations. It is impossible to solve the problem of optimal placement of agricultural production without legislative consolidation of the concept of «agro-industrial complex», which should receive a status at all levels of management.
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.
The article for a long period of time (1963-2019) provides an analysis of the state of grain production in the Stavropol region, determined the trend of change of the area of crops, yield, gross fees. Based on the analysis carried out, it was found that with the increase in the yield of winter wheat grain there is a steady tendency to decrease its quality. Iт 1963-1990 average protein content in wheat was 14.2-15.3‰, and gluten 26.4-28.2‰, then in 2016-2019, respectively, decreased to 12.4 and 21.3‰, and in 2016, while the share of food grain is - 80‰. Studies have shown that many factors influence the formation of sustainable and efficient production of high-quality winter wheat grains: Natural and climatic conditions, genetic properties of the variety, plant cultivation technologies, protection means, mineral fertilizers, etc. On the basis of many years of scientific research, with regard to grain production, recommendations are given to increase the production of high-quality grain in the Stavropol region: Optimize grain crop structures, provide plants with mineral nutrition elements, taking into account their scientific and reasonable need; Pay special attention to the use of nitrogen fertilizers during vegetation and in accordance with soil and plant diagnostics; Expand the use of physiologically active substances of the new generation, improve the work of breeding centres in order to create varieties with high grain quality and having increased resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses, etc.
The problem of dependence of changes in the volume of production on the use of different quantities of resources in economics is solved by apposition the law of diminishing marginal product. Its essence is that in a short period, when the value of production capacity is fixed, the marginal productivity of the variable factor will decrease, starting with a certain level of costs of this variable factor. This classical interpretation in modern conditions has a number of disputable provisions connected, first of all, with technological features of separate branches of economy. The aim of the research was to study the peculiarities of the manifestation of the law of diminishing returns in relation to a certain production, and in particular to dairy cattle breeding. The studies analyzed costs per 1 cow and milk yield per 1 cow from 1999 to 2018, by the farms of the Yaroslavl district, Yaroslavl region, built graphs of the dependence of these indicators. It was found that the effect of the law of diminishing returns is manifested both in individual farms and in a group of enterprises. In addition to confirming or refuting the hypothesis, the study of this issue gives an understanding of the choice of the optimal level of milk yield per 1 cow. Factors of optimization of level of productivity of cows among which the technological aspects promoting decrease in labour intensity and Prime cost of production have the greatest influence are considered. Specific examples show the relationship between productivity, costs and efficiency of dairy farming.
Sustainable development of provinces is an intrinsic part of Russian Federation's interior policy. One of the ways of management is a change to administrative boundaries of municipal entities to boost the efficiency both by lowering administrative barriers and more efficient use of budgetary means. The balanced development of any province is impossible without effective means of management aimed on the diversification of the province's economy. While conducting the administrative reforms it is necessary to form the development scenarios of the provinces with predominantly agrarian population to avoid the distancing of the authorities from the population. Sustainable development is inextricably connected to the support of the agrarians and hence the economic and food security of the country. Effective management allows to actively affect the current situation and development trends of agrarian provinces, track and correct uncontrollable phenomena and trends, make predictions and plans of this provinces' development that eventually improve the population's quality of life.
High strategical significance of domestic agrarian industry should be faced with the deep ang complex state policy and regulation to dramatically improve life quality. For this reason, the social effects of different kind should be scalarized. The distribution model proposed in the paper is based on backpack task and considered risks and system social effects. The model can be solved by means of classical discrete programming methods, evolution methods. The top of solutions can be researched with the help of Monte-Carlo method. Good (suboptimal) solution of the model can be reached by means of evolution calculation. The ways of further development are elaboration of evaluation approaches for different kind public effects and stress-testing.
According to the World Health Organization, the main causes of premature death and disability are chronic non-communicable diseases - cardiovascular, oncological, chronic bronchopulars and diabetes mellitus. Losses associated with reduced productivity and lack of workers range from 12‰ to 28‰ and depend on the number of risk factors. The costs of health care, absence, or non-effective presence due to illness cost US employers $200 billion annually - more than $1500 per worker. The cost to employers, both private individuals and public companies of temporary disability and compensation for injuries and new occupational diseases in the UK agro-industrial sector in 2017-2018 was £286 thousand. The article provides an overview of modern health management technologies aimed at preventing socially significant diseases in labour collectives, reducing temporary incapacity to work, improving the image of the employer and increasing the investment attractiveness of companies. The presented results of efficiency of the best foreign and Russian corporate programs of health promotion show the need to include these programs in the activities of companies.
the transformation processes in the territorial-sectoral and organizational-economic structure of agriculture of the Central Black Earth macro region are considered. The state and dynamics of the location and specialization of crop and livestock industries in the territorial reserve of the macro region and various categories of farms are analyzed; trends in structural shifts are identified and their assessment is given. It is concluded that during the post-reform period there is a change in the stages of development of agriculture and its agrarian structure. The main directions of transformation of agricultural production and its structure are complication of organizational and economic structure, change of trends of production of products, its ratios between categories of farms, territories, change of location and specialization, strengthening of processes of concentration and polarization of rural areas. Relying on bringing the agrarian structure of regions to rational parameters only through market self-regulation is unacceptable. Market mechanisms must be correctly combined with the mechanisms of state regulation of structural changes in agricultural production.
Agriculture is one of the priority sectors of the economy that is actively supported by the state. Therefore, the search for effective models for the development of agro-industrial production is undoubtedly important. In recent years, both positive and negative changes have taken place in the sphere of agricultural production due to the influence of various economic factors. This makes it necessary to study these factors and features of agricultural production at the level of economic entities. The solution of existing problems will allow to create conditions for improvement and increase of efficiency of activity of economic structures in the near future. Priority areas of agricultural policy are: creating conditions for the diversification of the rural economy; improving the material and technical base of producers through investment, development of seed production, selection and protection of plants and animals from pests; development and implementation of new mechanisms that stimulate cooperation in the agro-industrial complex; stimulating the growth of production of agricultural raw materials (grain, vegetables, cattle meat, pig meat and poultry); expanding the diversification of the activities of existing producers; improving the form of agricultural production management; increasing the level of remuneration of employees and reducing labor inequality; creating conditions for social development of the village. The research focuses on the analysis of financial results of agricultural organizations, farms and individual entrepreneurs in agriculture in the production of raw materials, its primary and deep processing. In addition, the efficiency of economic structures in the livestock and crop production sectors is analyzed.
Today, the accelerated development of high-tech industries in regional sectoral structures should be considered as the foundation for building up the innovative potential of the regions and the country as a whole. The defining features and peculiarities of the development of high-tech industries in the regions are the changes in industrial-industry specialization that emerged as a result of market transformations, as well as the interaction of science and enterprises in modernization, technical re-equipment and reconstruction of the technical and technological potential of enterprises. This article reveals the significance of the development of high-tech industries in the regional sectoral structures in the face of growing global challenges for the Russian economy. It is the constituent entities of the Russian Federation that are becoming leaders in the development of high-tech industries and centres of innovation activity. Methodological tools for managing the development of high-tech industries in the regional sectoral structures from the systematic and complex application proposed. They depend on not only the effectiveness of management, but the neutralization of global challenges and the sustainability of the Russian economy.