REVIVAL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMER COOPERATION IS AS A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPRESSED RURAL AREAS

DOI 10.32651/2011-87

Issue № 11, 2020, article № 14, pages 87-93

Section: Cooperation and integration

Language: Russian

Original language title: ВОЗРОЖДЕНИЕ И УСТОЙЧИВОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКОЙ КООПЕРАЦИИ КАК ФАКТОР РАЗВИТИЯ ДЕПРЕССИВНЫХ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ

Keywords: CONSUMER COOPERATION, DEPRESSED RURAL AREAS, RURAL ECONOMY, DIVERSIFICATION, STRATEGY, REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN

Abstract: The revival and sustainable development of consumer cooperation in rural areas is currently one of the priority areas of modern agricultural policy. Based on the advanced foreign and domestic experience, this is most relevant in relation to depressed rural areas, where cooperation can be a kind of driver in improving the quality of socio-economic development. Due to the development of consumer cooperatives of various forms and areas of activity, not only the problems of production, processing and marketing of agricultural products are effectively solved, but also the emergence of new non-agricultural sectors of the rural economy, its wide diversification is initiated, which contributes to the creation of new jobs, an increase in income and the quality of life of the population. Republic of Bashkortostan at the end of 2018-2019 is the leader among the subjects of the Russian Federation in terms of the number of agricultural consumer cooperatives created annually. However, at present, there is an acute problem of both the sustainability of the new organized consumer cooperatives in the long term, and the preservation of the system of the Bashkir Union of Consumer Societies that has existed since the beginning of the 20th century and its revival on a new market basis. Therefore, within the framework of this article, the need to develop and implement, in addition to regional, municipal and intermunicipal strategies for the development of agricultural consumer cooperatives, including the second and third levels, is actualized, for the organization of a sustainable regional cooperative system and the withdrawal of depressed south- and north-eastern rural areas region out of the crisis.

Authors: Akhmetov Viliur IAmilevich, Gataullin Rinat Fazltdinovich