Land and labor potential for expansion of agricultural production

Issue № 1, 2020, article № 3, pages 17-22

Section: Land use and land relations

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЗЕМЕЛЬНЫЙ И ТРУДОВОЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ ДЛЯ РАСШИРЕНИЯ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОГО ПРОИЗВОДСТВА

Keywords: LAND POTENTIAL, UNUSED LAND IN AGRICULTURE, RURAL MIGRATION, RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract: Present-day there are two biggest problems in the Russian countryside closely related to each other: reduction of the rural population, abandonment of rural settlements and withdrawal of land from agricultural production and their overgrowth. In this article, the authors attempt to study the main socio-economic factors of the country's regions, in order to compare these two negative processes and assess the contrast of their development depending on the subject (constituent entity) of the Russian Federation and its agro climatic conditions. The paper compares the indicator of possible potential production growth in the agricultural sector due to the involvement of unused old arable land into production with a number of factors characterizing the socio-economic conditions of the subjects of the Russian Federation. The choice of factors is because domestic consumer demand for agricultural products is the most reliable driving factor in the development of agricultural production. As a result, the authors highlighted depressed administrative regions with strongly developed negative processes, as well as regions where an increase in production is more likely. To solve problems in depressed regions, complex measures are required, which include the active interaction of the state and business, the creation of agro-industrial and forestry clusters with the provision of logistic access for rural residents to jobs, local and regional centers of civilization.

Authors: Polunin Gennadii Andreevich, Alakoz Valerii Vladimirovich, CHerkashin Kirill Igorevich