State Support For Production Research Articles

Ефективність державної фінансової підтримки галузі садівництва України та напрями її вдосконалення

The dynamics of increasing the productivity of fruit and berry plantations and improving the quality of horticultural products over the last decade is analyzed. The necessity of conducting a study in the field of state financial support for horticulture in Ukraine. The principles of its provision to industry entities assessed. The impact of such support on the sustainable growth of the volume and profitability of horticultural production is shown. On the basis of analytical researches the estimation of efficiency of use of tools of the state support of agricultural production in the field of horticulture of Ukraine is carried out, and the directions of their improvement are formulated. Data on state financial support of economic entities that establish young perennial orchards, store, and process their own fruits and small fruits, as well as data on the production of these products are presented. The dynamics of growth with state support of production in the field of horticulture from 2000 to 2013 and in its absence, the decline in the establishment of new perennial plantations, fruit and berry production and the number of seedling farm properties and their production of homestead material from 2013 to 2017 as well as the growth of these indicators for the restoration of such support from 2017 to 2021. The amounts of state support and the number of sectoral entities that used it in the period 2017-2021 are presented. The positive dynamics of import substitution growth of apples in Ukraine over the last decade as a result of financial support for the construction of refrigerators by economic entities for storage of domestic products is shown. The problematic issues of the horticultural sector that need to be addressed at the legislative level have been identified and specific proposals have been made for the next amendments to the legislative acts. The conclusions of this work were presented to the working group of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy on the development of horticulture for discussion and further use in developing proposals for further amendments to the legislation governing state support for the industry.

New Instrument of State Support for Production and Exports of Agricultural Products: About Agreements on Increasing the Competitiveness of Agricultural Producers

The article considers a new tool of state management in the sphere of support of production and exports of agricultural products — the agreement on increasing the competitiveness of its producershis instrument for contracting obligations was developed as a means of achieving a number of targets set by the National project «International Cooperation and Exports». The minimum experience of practical use of the tool (about a year) does not allow us to judge accurately the degree of its positive impact on agricultural production and exports. Nevertheless, the article describes the content characteristics of the instrument of the agreement on improving competitiveness and comments on the current methodology of its use; their weaknesses are identified and the corresponding positive proposals are developed.