TO THE QUESTION OF INCREASING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF RURAL TERRITORIES

Issue № 6, 2017, article № 12, pages 84-89

Section: Social problems of rural territories

Language: Russian

Original language title: К ВОПРОСУ О ПОВЫШЕНИИ КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТИ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ

Keywords: RURAL AREAS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITIVENESS, COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES, AGRARIAN POTENTIAL, PEASANT (FARM) ECONOMIES, AMUR REGION

Abstract: None of the rural area can develop evenly in all directions. The main task of strategic planning of their development is to identify «poles of growth». The competitiveness of rural areas can be viewed as a set of characteristics, allowing forming a competitive advantage to ensure the superiority of one over the territory of the other areas in terms of the attractiveness of the population living and conducting economic activity. The competitiveness of the territory is determined not only by the availability of competitive advantages, but the ability of management to ensure the possibility of their implementation within the framework of managing territorial development. The most important indicator reflecting the quality of the development of rural areas is changing the dynamics of the rural population living within the boundaries of the localized area and its demographic structure. Universal approach to the formation of the competitive advantages of some rural areas cannot be, but it can happen to consolidate the interests of individual territorial entities, business entities, individuals whose activities are incorporated sustainable economic and social ties. As the conditions of formation of the competitive advantages of rural settlements Belogorsk district of the Amur region in terms of development of agricultural production can be distinguished: the existence not involved in the economic turnover of productive land, a fairly high level of development of the farm sector, the growing demand for all kinds of agricultural products, the willingness significant part of farmers to develop Animal husbandry provided that the products are guaranteed to be sold at economically reasonable prices and to provide access to preferential credit resources and state support, rather high potential sector of households willing to increase the volume of agricultural production while ensuring its purchase under state control. While agreeing with the objective nature of the process of reducing the number of rural population, the state has yet to acknowledge its responsibility for ensuring the quality of life of the rural population, especially in sparsely populated settlements, and the ability of reproduction of its human capital.

Authors: Reimer Valerii Viktorovich, Tikhonov Evgenii Ivanovich, Kulev Sergei Aleksandrovich