INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFORMATIONS OF SYSTEM OF COOPERATION IN THE RURAL AREAS

DOI 10.32651/2070-0288-2018-9-106-113

Issue № 9, 2018, article № 19, pages 106-113

Section: Cooperation and integration

Language: Russian

Original language title: ИНФРАСТРУКТУРНЫЕ ПРЕОБРАЗОВАНИЯ СИСТЕМЫ КООПЕРАЦИИ НА СЕЛЕ

Keywords: AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES, FUNDS OF SUPPORT OF COOPERATION, CENTRES OF DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION, SYSTEM OF COOPERATION, SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES, AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

Abstract: The implementation of the strategic guidelines of the agro-industrial complex is not possible without the development of agricultural co-operation. Its role in the agricultural economy of the country is huge, having advantages over other economic systems; it is able to solve a number of national tasks, priority national projects, food security of the country. Agricultural cooperation as a distinctive socially-oriented category in modern practice is considered as a factor in the development of small farms in rural areas, as a mechanism for sustainable development of rural areas, and as a tool for improving the welfare of rural residents. However, despite the increased attention to the cooperative movement on the part of the state, the processes of formation of the system of agricultural cooperation occur spontaneously and haphazardly. State support is often aimed at supporting taken separately cooperatives, mostly consumer, the creation of infrastructure networks-development of cooperative systems takes place by the initiative, from need it themselves cooperatives. The domestic experience of cooperation development shows that it needs funds of financial assistance, information and consulting support, services of specialized training centres and advanced training of cooperative personnel. The article attempts to structure the changes in the system of cooperation in rural areas that have occurred in recent years and to characterize the existing elements of the system for a clear understanding of the actually working institutions of support of cooperation in rural areas. The study is based on a systematic and structural-functional approach to the study of the domestic system and infrastructure of agricultural cooperation, using monographic, abstract-logical, the method of economic observation, economic induction and deduction, and other research methods. Using retrospective analysis or historical method the article investigates the stages of formation of the modern system of cooperation in rural areas.

Authors: KHlusova Irina Aleksandrovna, KHlusov Valentin Nikolaevich