UNSTABLE GROWTH IN FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN RUSSIA

DOI 10.32651/2070-0288-2018-3-13-16

Issue № 3, 2018, article № 3, pages 13-16

Section: Program-target management of development of agricultural production

Language: Russian

Original language title: НЕРАВНОВЕСНЫЙ РОСТ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА И ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЯ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВИЯ В РОССИИ

Keywords: AGRICULTURE, INSTITUTIONS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION

Abstract: The article considers the contradictions between the growth of gross production in agriculture and the growth in per capita consumption of food in Russia. The unilateral policy of regulation of an environment through the state support of production in Russia is insufficiently effective. The following features of demand for food in modern Russia are marked out: the slowed-down growth, in comparison with growth of the offer: the wrong structure of food at 80‰ of the Russian population; at 30‰ - the caloric content of a diet is less than necessary day norm; at 10‰ - the caloric content of a diet is at the level of the compelled starvation. To mitigate existing failures in the market institutional environment of the agrarian sector, changes are proposed in the regulation of the agro-food market (building demand support institutions among low-income citizens and expanding demand among certain groups of the Russian population). The main task, which the institutes are called upon to address, is to ensure the balancing of supply and demand in the agro-food market not through a recession in production and supply reduction, but by increasing demand to supply level and higher. The target direction of income on expansion of demand in the agrofood market will promote support not only consumers, but also domestic manufacturers of food.

Authors: Gaisin Rafkat Sakhievich, Migunov Rishat Anatolevich