Personal subsidiary farm of rural people is the form of business activity on production provides to processing and realization of agricultural production itself the independent form of the organization without formation of legal entity which is carried out by a personal labour of citizens and members of their families. It is the most important producer of agricultural production that is caused by a solution food and on this basis of economic security of certain regions and is directed to increase in employment rate, income and quality of life of country people. The conducted researches show insufficiently high level of productive activity of personal subsidiary farms of the population in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. Many of them have no own sources of income due to realization of the made production and exist due to targeted social support of the state. The analysis of personal subsidiary farms of the population of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia which has allowed to develop recommendations about increase in effectiveness of production of agricultural production is presented in article. Offers and recommendations will find practical application in the agrarian sector that will allow to increase production efficiency, realization and processing of agricultural production and food on all categories of farms.
This study examines the need for the BRICS countries to switch to technologies of Agriculture 4.0 (Digital agriculture)-the current stage of agricultural development. The objectives of this article are: to calculate a technology gap between the BRICS countries and advanced economies in the agricultural production; assess technical efficiency of the BRICS countries’ agriculture within their local groups; analyze the need to switch to technologies of Agriculture 4.0 for the BRICS countries. Data envelopment analysis is used as a methodology for the calculations: a metafrontier approach is applied to a dynamic non-oriented SBM model with constant returns to scale (with five local groups of countries: the CIS, developing economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, developing Asia, developing economies of Africa, located to the south of the equator, advanced economies; 97 countries in total; the time interval of data: 2000-2014). The study shows that the BRICS countries have exhausted their potential of the applied technologies in agricultural production, since they have reached the maximum technical efficiency within the technologies of their local groups. At the same time the technology gap between the BRICS members, with the exception of China, and the advanced economies is relatively large and permanent, which indicates that the majority of BRICS members are not ready to switch to Agriculture 4.0. Of all the BRICS countries, China has the greatest potential for switching to new technologies in agriculture, which can eliminate the technology gap. According to our estimates, the transition to new technologies in Russia can increase its potential output of agricultural products twice with the same expenditure of agricultural resources. As a source of financing for the introduction of new technologies in our country, it is proposed to change the structure of state support of agriculture (by reducing market price support in favour of increasing support to fixed capital formation).
The analysis of distribution of the subsidized short-term credits on federal districts in the sphere of crop production in the directions is made. The main reasons for decrease in demand for proceeds of credit and reduction of availability of loans and credits as a result of aggravation of a financial condition of borrowers are considered. Conclusions are drawn that low profitability and high debt load of agricultural enterprises reduces possibilities of agricultural producers for attraction of proceeds of credit. An assessment of influence of the state support on financial stability of agricultural producers who obtain the credits for support of crop production is given. The maximum size of the loans which are attracted by agricultural producers on development of the sphere of crop production is revealed. Conclusions are drawn on reduction of the index of physical volume of capital investments in fixed capital of the sphere of crop production. The main creditors of agro-industrial complex are revealed. The main tool of state support in ensuring availability of current borrowed funds which are necessary for crop production is offered.
The article gives results of agricultural economics micro thesaurus creation performed in CSAL. The research goal was a linguistic tool that can form and structure information on economics of agriculture with relevant subject-specific retrieval and also can be used as a table of correspondence for number of information retrieval languages. Effective subject-specific search requires specially designed linguistic tool - thesaurus. Micro thesaurus specializes on a separate area of agriculture, can be used as a directory of normalized dictionary, supports normalized dictionary introduction into local scientific practice and gives opportunity to estimate a level of any topic research. The method of thesaurus creation included vocabulary selection and takeoff, semantic processing, normalized dictionary tailoring and creation of lexical entries. To reveal the terminology the authors analyzed different sources including dictionaries thesauruses, current and retrospective articles. All the terms and items included passed through notional processing to determine status of the term, all the synonyms and connections with other terms as well as paradigmatic and associative relations. All descriptors were connected with English equivalent ones. Also authors created the tables of correspondences for thesaurus, branch rubricator and Universal Brussels Classification which means that any descriptor in the thesaurus was connected with its analogues. The micro thesaurus created is fully corresponded to current level of linguistic support and can be used as a linguistic tool of document processing, subject-specific search and also as a directory of normalized dictionary.
Considering present geopolitical situation it is necessary for Russia to achieve food self-sufficiency, which requires an involvement of unused agricultural land into agricultural production. To reach that objective it is necessary to evaluate the potential of unused land in the country and estimate the degree of food self-sufficiency. Areas of unused valuable productive agricultural land, which should be returned to production, determined as a result of classification of land by it suitability for agricultural use. State food self-sufficiency rate is determined for basic food products considering the standards of its consumption. The possibilities of the dairy farming were calculated. It is one of the weakest industries. There is necessary capacity by involvement of unused valuable agricultural land into production with intermediate input level. As a result for European part of Russia it is possible to reach up to 85‰ of required production capacity (for now it is about 60‰) engaging only valuable unused land (which is only 20‰ of unused land in that area), and, for sure, to exceed the existing amount of import. The most part of unused land falls on the non-chernozem zone of Russian Federation and development of livestock industry within that area should serve as a source of growth of rural territories, which are in desolation for now.
The dynamics of trade development requires the feedback from the market participants in order to increase the efficiency of the business. At the same time we observe the processes of blurring formats and business concepts in the trading activities practice, which lead to a decrease in the effectiveness of general trading activities. In this regard, the importance of acquiring a conceptual approach to the selection of trade formats acquires particular importance, the expedient selection of which ultimately influences the formation of loyalty of the target segments of buyers and the overall performance of trading companies. Justification of the expediency of the transition from the processes of accumulation of trade formats without understanding the differences between them in the structure of trading company to the well-founded construction of the multi-format trade business model. A carefully built, grounded multi-format business model can positively influence the overall performance of trading companies.
The article’s purpose is an assessment of opportunities of determination of probability of crisis on the basis of significant factors. A research object is the agricultural organizations of which is characteristic dependence of business on an environment, seasonality of production works, the considerable competition, sharp fluctuation in prices of agricultural production, high wear of fixed assets. A serious problem is also the lack of financing, low investment attractiveness of the agricultural organizations, inaccessibility of credit resources and a lack of mortgage providing. It leads to the high level of bankruptcies for the agricultural organizations. So, for the end of 2016, by data SPARK-Interfax, more than 300 in a state bankruptcies were the share of 27.6 thousand operating agricultural organizations, and about 1.9 thousand more enterprises were liquidated. The mechanism of crisis management directed to prevention of bankruptcy of the agricultural organizations, assuming determination of probability of approach of bankruptcy on the basis of significant factors is investigated.
Article purpose is the analysis of a condition of enterprise climate in agriculture defining possibilities of subjects of small business for functioning and development of the activity. Assessment of level of satisfaction of subjects of small agribusiness by a condition of elements of enterprise climate in the region is executed. The received results demonstrate dissatisfaction of subjects of small agribusiness with a condition of the studied factors. The highest level of dissatisfaction is characteristic of a condition of material infrastructure, level of availability of financial resources and land resources. The analysis has shown low supply of the equipment. Possibilities of attraction of financial resources are complicated by high interest rates and requirements for mortgage base. Possibilities of receiving lands of agricultural purpose for subjects of small agribusiness low. In the most remote areas having the respective areas, businessmen don't show activity in creation and expansion of production as effective motivational mechanisms of their attraction on these territories aren't implemented.
The article presents the methodology of the prospects of the agro-industrial market and the relevance of its development. The concept of modeling the market prospects as a dynamic mechanism of supply-demand balance is proposed, the method of modeling the market prospects on the basis of variation deviations of trends is developed. The application of the proposed approach makes it possible to demonstrate the connection of the basic provisions of the market equilibrium theory with the problems of assessing the prospects of the situation in the agricultural markets. The market outlook modeling methodology includes four successive stages. Testing of the proposed method was carried out using official Rosstat data on the grain market. Over a twenty-year time interval, the changes in prices and production volumes were analyzed. The basic statistical parameters of regression are defined. The quantitative parameters of the dependence of the volumes of supply and demand and prices are established. The conditions of market equilibrium in the wheat market are determined. The elasticity of supply and demand for the price is estimated. The gradient and the nature of the market balance are revealed, the prospect of the Russian wheat market is described. Testing confirms the practical usefulness of the results in the wheat market prospects management. The proposed methodology can be used in the analysis of other markets with significant variability of parameters by their operators.
The structure of the price for the last quarter century has changed dramatically. If in the pre-perestroika period, in the prime cost of production, the main costs were for the maintenance of fixed assets, seeds and labour. Now, in 25 years, the expenses for the maintenance of fixed assets have been reduced by 2 times, but expenses for oil products and electric power have increased 5-fold, and overhead expenses (administrative expenses) have doubled. In unstable market conditions, an agricultural commodity producer is faced with the fact that after the sale of its goods it does not pay back its costs and is at a loss. The rather complicated and unstable situation on the grain market led to the result, when peasants, having received a large harvest, can not sell it at reasonable prices. The state in such situations should act as a guarantor of the fact that at such price hikes the commodity producer can always count on getting state support for the lost profit. For the operation of such a mechanism for regulating the grain market, we propose an indicative mechanism for pricing in the grain market, based on the definition of indicative prices, taking into account expanded reproduction. Calculation of indicative prices should be made taking into account the net payback of costs for the production of gross output. Proceeding from the offered technique actually in 2015 producers of grain has received less 1529.4 million roubles. Settlement indication price of grain in 2020 will be 9.48, in 2025 - 13.1 thousand roubles/t.