VEGETABLE MARKET OF RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND TENDENCIES OF DEVELOPMENT

Issue № 8, 2017, article № 7, pages 47-54

Section: Agrofood market

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОВОЩНОЙ РЫНОК РОССИИ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ

Keywords: VEGETABLE GROWING, GREENHOUSE ECONOMY, IMPORT SUBSTITUTION, INFRASTRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION OF THE SALES SYSTEM, STORAGE OF VEGETABLES

Abstract: Russia is among the ten largest vegetable producers in the world. The share of Russia in the world production of vegetables is 1.5‰. The current level of vegetable production does not fully meet the growing needs of the country's population. In the past five years, there has been an increase in the production of vegetables, both due to the expansion of cultivation areas, and through intensification of production. However, the main producers of vegetables in Russia still remain small-scale farms of the population, which hampers the introduction of intensive technologies and causes a high production cost of vegetables, and hence the low competitiveness of domestic products in comparison with imports. In the article the tendencies of development of the vegetable market for the last 20 years, its organizational features and potential development opportunities are considered. The role of the greenhouse economy in providing the population with fresh vegetables of domestic production is shown, especially in the off-season period due to its accelerated development with state support and effective deployment of greenhouses in the regions of Russia. An important role of the greenhouse economy in import substitution of vegetable production was noted. One of the conditions for increasing vegetable resources is to reduce losses in the process of storage, transportation and sale of vegetable products, which requires intensive development of the infrastructure of the vegetable market, especially the storage and processing of vegetable products.

Authors: Medvedeva Nina Afanasevna