Abstract
The present article reflects the authors’ views on the subject of different approaches to explore features of changes in the agrarian sphere of economy. It is focused that an objective basis for an essential reformation in the agrarian sphere of national economy is to ensure national food security. One of the best ways to change the form and ways of economic management, according to the authors, is to create agro-industrial clusters in Russia. The writers believe that agro-industrial clusters have the potential to become under the modern circumstances an adequate response in choosing future paths to reform agrarian sphere of the Russian Federation economy considering the common inner instability within the country as well as the constantly changing foreign-economic challenges, including food sanctions. The article also introduces some theoretical aspects of creating agro-industrial clusters in the system of national economy; main features of agro-industrial clusters are determined. Special emphasis is placed on the exploration of the different issues of investment attraction and investment climate of agro-industrial clusters based on soil and climatic diversity of a region along with historically established distinctive features of economic management. Additionally, the article demonstrates a development of the authors’ hypothesis of an official functionally structured modelling of investment attraction of regional agro-industrial clusters depending on both the analysis of common investment potential together with investment risks and economic situation in a single agro-industrial sector. Moreover, the writers suggests regional ranking of forming agro-industrial clusters in terms of investment attraction and the existing cluster initiatives. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p165
Highlights
Difficulties of the whole process to create an agrarian sphere within the RF economy persuade researchers to search for the ways and methods of solving the existing problems, including scientific and theoretical grounds to accept optimal solutions while reforming
It should be noted that the potato in Russia, according to some unspoken rule, is considered “second bread” and despite the technological changes people continue to plant it in their personal subsidiary plots (PSP) and their suburban plots
In this case two specifications are of special interest. Western economies lack such form of economic management as Personal Subsidiary Plots (PSP) and suburban plots, which are based on the right of private land ownership. (Maksimova, 2013) Secondly, potato planting on one’s own land for individual consumption and surplus sale on the market can be regarded as one of the deep-rooted traditions in Russia concerning land economic management, which is no longer used in the Western practice
Summary
Difficulties of the whole process to create an agrarian sphere within the RF economy persuade researchers to search for the ways and methods of solving the existing problems, including scientific and theoretical grounds to accept optimal solutions while reforming. The investment volume of the project is calculated up to 620 million rubles This agro-industrial cluster integrates within a single region in the sphere of agrarian industry, cattle breeding, including dairy and meet produce companies, and simultaneous building such infrastructural assets as: housing, social and engineering structures. The creation of this particular agro-holding, like any other large-scale investment project, is graded. It should be noted that the potato in Russia, according to some unspoken rule, is considered “second bread” and despite the technological changes people continue to plant it in their personal subsidiary plots (PSP) and their suburban plots (so called dachas). The focus of “Bristol, Ltd” to expand potato planting based on the climatic and soil opportunities is more than justified
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