SOME ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRICING AND PRICE DISPARITY

Issue № 1, 2025, article № 4, pages 45-53

Section: Investment and innovation in agriculture

Language: Russian

Original language title: НЕКОТОРЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ ЦЕНООБРАЗОВАНИЕ В СЕЛЬСКОМ ХОЗЯЙСТВЕ И ДИСПАРИТЕТ ЦЕН

Keywords: PRICE, PRICE MECHANISM, EXCHANGE, PARITY, PRICE PARITY, DISPROPORTION, EXPANDED REPRODUCTION, AGRICULTURE, GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Abstract: The article examines some theoretical and practical aspects of pricing in the agro-industrial complex and analyzes differences in changes in the growth rates of industrial purchase prices for agricultural producers and prices of agricultural products in various regions of Russia. The article focuses on the monthly dynamics of average prices of the main types of agricultural products sold by agricultural organizations in Russia and notes their extremely variable nature in some groups, low volatility in other types. The understanding of price as an economic category by the classics of political economy and modern researchers, including agricultural economists, is considered, highlighting the condition for ensuring parity between agricultural products and goods supplied by industries for the agricultural sector of the economy. It is noted that the unjustified increase in prices for certain types of means of production for agriculture as a result of increased demand for them from agricultural producers. The question is raised about approaches to understanding disparity as an economic phenomenon in the exchange relations between agriculture and industry. The article puts forward a position on the objective nature of the emerging disparity as a reflection of the disparity in socially necessary labor costs for the production of complex high-performance and energy-intensive agricultural machinery in comparison with agricultural products. The inherent disproportion, as a result of differences in socially necessary labor costs for "complex" and "simple" goods, requires an impact not on ensuring parity, but on reducing the consequences of such objectively inherent disproportionality through the use of a wide range of government regulatory instruments – financial, economic, budgetary, tax, etc. This will expand the opportunities for strengthening the food security of the state in the context of the need to overcome the global challenges facing Russian society and the increasing geostrategic tensions in the world.

Authors: Kulov Aslan Rostislavovich