Оценка потребности в объемах производства основных видов сельскохозяйственной продукции с учетом сложившейся дифференциации доходов населения

Abstract

The agrarian policy carried out in Russia is primarily aimed at ensuring food security, the main components of which are the economic and physical availability of food to the population. However, the indicators approved in the regulatory legal acts on monitoring food security do not contribute to its objective assessment. They can be used to assess the overall state of food security. For a more objective assessment of the economic availability of food to the population of the Russian Federation, a more in-depth analysis is needed, which requires, among other things, changes in the methods for calculating food independence, taking into account the share of household disposable resources used to purchase food. It is also necessary to take into account the energy value of food, the quality of food consumed, etc. For this, it is necessary to significantly expand the information base on food consumed, including taking into account its quality and energy value. The paper attempts, based on the available analytical data, to make an assessment of the economic availability of food for households depending on their income, as well as in the context of socio-demographic groups, to determine the main factors constraining bringing the level of food consumption to rational norms.