ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN RUSSIA: THE CONDITIONS OF TRANSITION TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORY

Issue № 12, 2016, article № 6, pages 34-41

Section: Problems of efficient management

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОРГАНИЧЕСКОЕ СЕЛЬСКОЕ ХОЗЯЙСТВО В РОССИИ: УСЛОВИЯ ПЕРЕХОДА НА ТРАЕКТОРИЮ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ

Keywords: ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATIC CHANGES, GREENHOUSE GASES, STANDARDS, LEGISLATION, REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION

Abstract: The authors analyze the challenges facing the agricultural sector of Russia, which, on the one hand, stimulate its accelerated development, including the provision of food independence of the country and, on the other hand, impose a limit on the use of the traditional ways of doing business, taking into account the contribution of the sector to global climate problems. There are examined the prospects of development of the model of organic agriculture. The authors identify the obstacles standing in the way of transformation of organic agriculture into the stable functioning and having significant export potential segment of the Russian economy, which is designed to ensure a balanced achievement of economic, environmental and social goals. There were formulated the main barriers: the imperfection of legislative regulation of production, processing and sale of organic production, high level of prices of organic production in the market, the unavailability of agricultural producers' interest in organic production, caused by high cost of investment resources and difficulties of certification, a limitation of production resources (the arable land, labour) for increase in the production of organic production. The major directions of development of organic production in the various Russia’s regions in view of their climatic, geographical and social characteristics are also proposed.

Authors: Nesterenko Natalia IUrevna, Pakhomova Nadezhda Viktorovna