Assessment of budgetary programs for organizational support of technological updating of production in agricultural enterprises

Abstract

Introduction. Effective functioning of agricultural enterprises at the current stage of economic development is possible only in an intensive way, which involves making and implementing innovative decisions to improve production, management and marketing activities. One of the directions of innovative development of the enterprise is technological modernization of production. Considering the huge expenses of implementation of this process, connected with the costs of material and technical, information support, training of personnel, etc., the state financial support for innovation is important and desirable. It is manifested in the financing of relevant budget programs aimed not only at the direct implementation of technological modernization of production, but also the organizational support for its implementation. The purpose of the article is to identify and evaluate budget programs for organizational support of technological upgrading of agricultural enterprises’ production. Methods. Methods of generalization, systematization, analysis, abstraction, comparison, absolute and relative values are used in the process of research to identify and evaluate budget programs for organizational support of technological upgrading of production in agricultural enterprises. Results. The importance and necessity of measures for research and experimental development in the process of technological renovation of agricultural enterprises' production are substantiated. Training, retraining and advanced training of personnel; advisory assistance; some agro-technical and zoo-technical measures that are a function of the state and financed by the relevant budget programs are substantiated. It was found out that during 2009-2018, funds were allocated from the state budget for measures of organizational support of technological renovation of agricultural enterprises’ production within the framework of financing of relevant budget programs. However, in the recent years the number of budget support programs for the agro-industrial complex and their funding have decreased compared to 2009, and individual programs have ceased to operate separately and combined with other programs. Thus, this situation will not improve the efficiency of the process of technological upgrading of agricultural enterprises’ production. Discussion. It is important and necessary in the future to include the funds in the state budget aimed at financing the programs of innovative development of agricultural enterprises, in particular for technological updating of production. Keywords: technological updating of production; agricultural enterprises; budget programs; organizational support.