THE DEVELOPMENT OF FARMING IN THE KURGAN REGION: CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS

DOI 10.32651/2070-0288-2018-3-6-12

Issue № 3, 2018, article № 2, pages 6-12

Section: Program-target management of development of agricultural production

Language: Russian

Original language title: РАЗВИТИЕ ФЕРМЕРСТВА В КУРГАНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ: УСЛОВИЯ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

Keywords: AGRICULTURE, FAMILY FARMS, INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT, EFFECTIVENESS, GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT, AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

Abstract: In the article it was presented the results of the study of family farms development in Russia, both at the stage of their formation, and in current socio-economic and institutional environment (on the example of the Kurgan region). Positive dynamics in their size and performance results observed during the first years of their establishment and development was explained by active government and public support for this form of agricultural production. As a major obstacle to the successful functioning of these units are represented, firstly, the high transaction costs of their establishment and continued functioning, secondly, unequal competitive opportunities with counteragents on agricultural markets, thirdly, numerous institutions, established around farming (especially informal). With regard to family farms of Kurgan region, reducing their population, on the one hand, and the insignificant contribution to the total volume of agricultural production in the region, on the other, of course, does not diminish the high importance of farming in the development of rural territories and agricultural sector. Prospects for the development of family farms in the Kurgan region relate primarily to the agricultural cooperation, the improvement of farm’s internal structure, state support of this phenomenon. The positive experience of farming in the past twenty-five years, marked in the work, confirms the growth potential of their contribution to the economy of agriculture and region as a whole.

Authors: Mylnikov Evgenii Aleksandrovich, Golovina Svetlana Georgievna, Volodina Natalia Gennadevna, Smirnova Lidiia Nikolaevna