КОМПЛЕКСНАЯ ОЦЕНКА РАЗВИТИЯ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА РОССИЙСКО-БЕЛОРУССКОГО ПРИГРАНИЧЬЯ

Abstract

The main goal of this work is to search for new approaches to the study of agriculture in territories within which there are contrasts in the level of agricultural development in particular and the level of socio-economic development in general. The work uses methods of gravitational fields and economic-geographical profiling along the conventional line Minsk - Moscow, and also tests for the current state of agriculture the approach to assessing the agricultural specialization of territories, first proposed by I. von Thünen. The level of agricultural development, assessed using these methods, is presented in ten-year dynamics.The use of these methods made it possible to identify both poles of agricultural growth and depressed areas that lag behind in terms of the level of agricultural development and requirethe use of special instruments of institutional and socio-economic policy to support theagricultural industry. As a result of applying profiling techniques and building potential models within the Republic of Belarus, it was possible to identify two poles of agricultural growth, as well as assess the level of gap in agricultural indicators when crossing the border. It has been established that in recent years, within the Russian sector of the border area, there has been an accelerated development of agriculture, due to the policy of import substitution in key agricultural sectors. At the same time, the agriculture of the border region, in general, being on the periphery of the countries, underrealizes the potential of the geographical location between the two largest sales markets of the Union State and currently needs more intensive development. Another conclusion is the correspondence of the agricultural specialization of the regions of Mezhcapital to the one identified in the works of J. von Thünen according to theoretical ideas about the specialization of agricultural production at a distance from large cities.