Современное состояние и перспективные направления технической модернизации аграрного сектора

Abstract

The paper outlines the current state and promising directions of technical and technological modernization of the agricultural sector, which determines the vector of competitiveness of the country’s agriculture. Much attention is paid to government support and technical modernization programs as tools to stimulate and upgrade the country’s agricultural machinery and tractor fleet. It is argued that these tools of technical modernization of the industry are used in different ways by different subjects of the Russian Federation. The work highlights the leading regions for the renewal of the main fleet of agricultural machinery. The experience of technical and technological modernization of the crop industry in a large agricultural region of Southern Russia - the Rostov region - is studied. Taking into account the author’s coefficients for determining the normative need for the main types of agricultural machinery, recommended parameters for updating the machine and tractor fleet of the region have been developed, allowing to provide the agricultural sector with new generation equipment and increase its competitiveness. The implementation of the proposed parameters assumes the preservation of the level of regional support for the industry in terms of its technical modernization, the stabilization of grain prices in the country and in the global agri-food market.