COOPERATIVES AS A MECHANISM FOR SUPPLYING MATERIAL AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN RUSSIA

Issue № 6, 2024, article № 11, pages 112-122

Section: Material and technical base of the agro-industrial complex

Language: Russian

Original language title: КООПЕРАТИВЫ КАК МЕХАНИЗМ СНАБЖЕНИЯ МАТЕРИАЛЬНО-ТЕХНИЧЕСКИМИ РЕСУРСАМИ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЕЙ В РОССИИ

Keywords: DIVERSIFICATION, COMPETITIVENESS, COOPERATIVES FOR THE SHARING OF EQUIPMENT, LOGISTICS, SERVICE COOPERATIVES, AGRICULTURE, SUPPLY COOPERATIVES

Abstract: One of the important components of uninterrupted agricultural production is the timely provision of material and technical resources to producers. Russian agriculture is to a certain extent characterized as small-scale, which complicates its modernization due to the weak financial stability of small agricultural organizations, farms, individual entrepreneurs and households. The cooperative model is practiced around the world to increase scale, as well as to consolidate the interests of members when purchasing expensive equipment. For example, in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada and other countries there are machinery sharing cooperatives that are very quickly adapting to market functions in a changing economic environment characterized by technological shifts, industrialization of the agricultural sector and individual farming. Currently, they have diversified their activities and also provide members with fuels and lubricants, seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and other resources. In Russia, supply and service cooperatives play an insignificant role in providing farmers with factors of production. Foreign experience can help in building a workable cooperative system in Russia.

Authors: Kruchinina Valentina Mitrofanovna, Ryzhkova Svetlana Mitrofanovna