The need for switching to a new paradigm of the development and implementation of agricultural and food policy

Abstract

This forecast of a possible future increase in the capacity of the domestic agricultural market implies that the existing potential for growth in agricultural production, based on the food and light industries’ demand for food and raw materials, may exhaust by the late 2020s. Detailed illustrations show that the saturation of traditional markets will lead to significant changes in the logic of interdependence between various developmental aspects of the agro-industrial complex (AIC) and in the logic of forming problem situations, which will arise in the development of the agrarian sector in the medium and long term. These changes must be reflected in approaches to the development and implementation of agricultural and food policy.