Comparative Analysis of Technical and Technological Equipment of Agricultural Sectors in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The subject of the researchis technical and technological equipment of different sectors in Russian agriculture. The urgency of the problem under study is caused by the necessity to ensure the sufficient level of food safety of the Russian Federation, which is impossible to be reached without technical and technological renovation of the agricultural industry and without effective implementation of the programs of progressive development of the Russian agroindustrial complex and raising its competitiveness on the basis of acceptable materiel and technical support level of the agriculture.The purpose of the workis conducting a comparative analysis of technical and technological equipment of different Russian agricultural sectors with the aim of determining the necessary purchase amount for agricultural equipment within the framework of implementing the May 2018 Decree of the Russian Federation President. In the cause of the research the author used the techniques of vertical, comparative and retrospective analyses via examining the change dynamics in the areas under crop on the whole in the RF and the sown areas along single crops, the dynamics of gross agricultural output in all sorts of farm businesses, as well as the dynamics of productivity of different cultivated crops in farm businesses of different kinds across the Russian Federation. On the basis of the research the author determines the dynamics of change in major statistical agricultural indicators for the period of 1990–2018 that were used to forecast investments by agricultural producers into purchasing equipment in 2019–2020. The author also presents requirements computation for agricultural equipment (harvesting combines and tractors).