Crop production of the Perm region: trends, problems, prospects

Issue № 9, 2021, article № 10, pages 82-90

Section: Economics of agribusiness sectors

Language: Russian

Original language title: РАСТЕНИЕВОДСТВО ПЕРМСКОГО КРАЯ: ТЕНДЕНЦИИ, ПРОБЛЕМЫ, ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

Keywords: FOOD SECURITY, AGRICULTURE, CROP PRODUCTION, YIELD, TRENDS, INTENSIFICATION, FOOD RESOURCES, ACREAGE

Abstract: Crop production as the most important direction of agricultural production is an essential factor in solving the problems of ensuring food security in Russia as a whole and its individual regions. Crop production of the Perm Region, located in the zone of risky agriculture and characterized by a high level of risk of adverse effects of weather and climatic conditions, can cause negative trends in the formation of food resources of the Perm Region and ensuring food security of the region. In order to identify the main trends in crop production in the Perm Region and substantiate the reserves for increasing the efficiency of crop production, opportunities and risks in solving the problems of food security in the region, an analysis was carried out based on the official statistics of the Perm Region for 2015-2019. The assessment of the dynamics of factors of crop production (yield, acreage, intensification) allowed us to identify negative trends that negatively affect the results of activities in crop production and, as a result, the regional food balance and the level of self-sufficiency of the region. Risk points were identified for potatoes and vegetables. A significant decrease in the yield in 2019 for potatoes (-8.8 c / ha or -6.27%) with a decrease in the area of potato sowing (-5.1 thousand hectares or -20.73%) predetermined a decrease in potato production by 62.5 thousand tons (29.7%). The insecurity of domestic potato consumption in the Perm Region is 18% at the end of 2019. The Perm Region is provided with vegetables of its own production by 56%. The obtained results made it possible to identify problems in the process of forming food resources of the Perm Region, the solution of which is possible by increasing the efficiency of activities in crop production, including through increasing the provision of industry enterprises with fixed assets, fertilizers, seed material resistant to the climatic conditions of the Perm Region.

Authors: SHalaeva Liudmila Vasilevna