State support for agriculture of Russia and regions: historical aspect and modern realities

Abstract

This research is conducted under the «Development of the conditional factors and requirements standards for methods of use conditition coefficients for the transfer of tractors, grain and corroboration combines to the reference units in determining the standards to their needs» proposed by the Department of Science and Technology Policy and Education of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for Agricultural Universities. (Research of purpose) The research purpose is in assessing the current state of state support for agriculture in Russia and the regions, conducting a comparative analysis of methods and directions of state support for agricultural production in the USSR and the current level of state support for agriculture in developed foreign countries. (Materials and methods) The research materials were studies of domestic scientists, Government Resolutions of the Russian Federation and the Sverdlovsk region, laws of the Sverdlovsk region, and official statistical indicators. Used methods: abstract-logical, monographic, economic-statistical, forecasting method, economic-mathematical modeling, expert assessments, and others. (Results and discussion). The article presents an algorithm for implementing state support for agriculture in the USSR, in the first years of the post-soviet period, analyzes the volume of state support and production in leading foreign countries, analyzes state support and production volumes of agriculture in the Sverdlovsk region and calculates indicators that characterize the effectiveness of state support. (Conclusions) Analysis of the use of state support, the use of economic and statistical method, expert evaluations, the proposed formulas for calculation of indicators characterizing the efficiency of state support have helped to make recommendations for optimization of volumes and directions of state support for regions and for the whole of agriculture of Russia.