Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article systematizes the singularity de-velopment and management of small farms (SFB), analyzes their competitive position, the technique of definition of the capacity of their market segment, is a model of a con-sumer cooperative multi SFB

The problem of determining the correct potential market size for commodity products produced by small businesses is a subject of a great importance, as the excess of unsold products become a source of loss and default of management. Sales of produced agricultural and food produce for subjects of small business is crucial and, therefore, is a subject of increased interest. The author notes that today the main thing is not to produce products, but to effectively realize what is being produced. For this reason, for manufacturers of products, the correct prediction of production volumes given the potential market size is a problem of current interest. For more accurate results, the author recommends dividing the consumer groups of the population depending on the level of food consumption. To achieve that, it is suggested to divide consumers’ social, specific, and other characteristics. These essential features are accounted by the instrumentation panel surveys. The proposed approach with the right content recommended formula allows to define and model the volumes of agricultural products, which the market is able to absorb; to plan specific levels of production of subjects of small farms, the volume of product offerings that will find buyers, what will significantly reduce the risks of losses and occurrence of illiquid stocks

It is being said that the competitive position of subjects of small agrarian farms (SAF) are often provided with increasingly innovative approaches with flexibility of internal management, the ability to quickly adapt to constantly changing conjuncture market. However, as practice shows, the direction of development in small economies does not act as a priority of modern agricultural policy in this field, often dominated by declarative intent rather than running behind these statements required volumes of investment in regulation of subjects SAF development. It is noted that there the following actions should be taken: to supply the participants of small agricultural farms with necessary land resources; to create an affordable banking scheme for obtaining investment credits, subsidies, and cooperative credit for small business entities; to expand the scope of production and service; to continue development of opportunities for industrial cooperation, joint logistics, processing, marketing research, and marketing of products; to facilitate the access of small actors to local retail markets. A high rate of inflation, directly affecting the cost of credit, fuel prices, updating the technical and material base of production, and difficulties with working capital are still remaining the major problem. The solution to these problems would be enhancing the market competitiveness of small agrarian businesses

The article shows the economic mechanism of operation of the vertical cooperation of small agricultural farms and their quantitative characteristics. There is great attention paid to the work of Revising Union; and there are shown: its objectives, its stabilizing role in lending to small businesses, and the volume of regional lending. The proposed project is meant to improve the current economy mechanism of vertical cooperation, to increase efficiency of regulation of the development process of consumer cooperatives of small farming with future possibility of public offering of constituent entities of the production infrastructure created with participation of the state. The authors recommend creating joint infrastructural facilities for small business with active engaging of the government, which will increase currently low motivation of participants of small-scale agricultural farming (SAF) in building a new cooperation. It is recommended to actively enhance the process of creating of infrastructure of economic activity, the state features in the construction of production, supply, logistics, processing, marketing and other necessary for practical objects in the form of storage facilities, slaughterhouses, depots mine-mineral fertilizers etc. It is proposed to enhance preparation and retraining of personnel for working with small farms and especially in their consumer cooperatives. To increase efficiency of the informative-consultative instrument of development of small business by adding more state funding, more actively implement a scheme of public-private partnerships with cooperatives of small agricultural farming. The crucial condition for successful development of SAF is lobbying interests of participants of small agrarian business by giving opportunities from regional Chambers of commerce and industry, by establishing associations of small forms of management to protect interests of participants in use of land, resources provision, lending, product sales, and other important concerns

In the article, we are revealing system problems of improvement of the quality in training of masters for the economic direction; the mechanisms and set of instruments of their realization by means of the contemporary technologies of informational-dimensional educational medium are determined

This article discusses the forming methodology development and implementation of competitive strategy of industrial enterprises, based on the simulation of structural models of competition

This article notes that agricultural production is not a self-regulating system. The article highlights specific features of agricultural production and forms of ownership of the major productive resource – land, ineffective policies of promoting development and introduction of innovative technologies. It is noted that the system of measures and tools of state regulation of agricultural production have two directions of influence: governmental regulation of the agricultural market mechanism and industrial governmental support for manufacturers. The authors give classification of methods and instruments of state regulation, liberalization of the agricultural sector in the WTO, levels of aggregate support for agriculture; as well as identifies the key growth areas of the governmental support and discusses the basic institutions of governmental regulation: ownership, legal Institute of economic management and the Institute of organization management. It's pointed out that the current dynamics of the development of agricultural production in our country is determined by four major external factors: the Institute of Western sanctions imposed against our country, Russia's integration into the international market by joining the World Trade Organization, the functioning of the Single Economic Space within the Customs Union, and the necessity of solving problems of import substitution and food security of our country. Implementation of these methods requires significant institutional transformation and transition into the new levels of legal, commercial, and economic regulation with observance of equitable international cooperation. In conclusion, the authors discuss an insufficient level of development stimulation in domestic agriculture

The problems of import substitution, resource features of the agrarian economy, through which you can generate significant competitive advantage, are discussed. It is noted that low abroad interest rates on loans create obvious unequal starting opportunities throughout the domestic business. As a result the cost of imported food in value chain terms reached in our country an enormous rate of $45 billion and that government realized the need of strengthening of food security, transferring of production of traditional kinds of products which form the basis of consumption of the population in our country, to the domestic market. It is noted that we need temporary moderate state protectionism and protection of the domestic market with the aim of modernizing the economy, attracting investors in the important field of production with high risks. The main problems and solutions that will help to further successful implementation of this strategy in the sectors of our economy are highlighted. It is noted that our region has the most effecting rural industrial structure, the best country’s climate, enlarged crop rotation, cheap labor resources, extensive experience in agribusiness. It is proposed to perform a set of measures to reduce systemic risks in agribusiness

Availability of selling channels is the key to further successful development of subjects of small agrarian farms. Today, the share of large chain retailers continues to grow, breaking the 25% bar of all retail sales, and the share of agricultural markets and fairs reduced by reason of redundancy for the control and regulation of trade. Recent monitoring revealed that prices of cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and beets at agricultural fairs were 15-20% lower than in stores. So, if to destroy small market infrastructure, the peasant farm, personal subsidiary and other small agricultural production, provision of their products to local farm markets just dies. However, agricultural markets are waiting for bad changes – they will be obliged to work only indoor, in permanent buildings. Agricultural markets, which can not cope with the implementation of the new law, will be forced to close, to withdraw from the market. The authors predict that the closing of small markets will lead to a rise in price of foods on the average on 15% and believe the decision of postponing the implementation of the law to 2010 is correct, including transferring territorial authorities the right to carry agricultural markets in capital structures, allocation to mobile trading in a separate category with a simplified procedure of regulation, and making transparent and unified principles of regulation of non-stationary trade

The article says that small agricultural farms (SAF) play a significant role in import substitution of food, which is aimed at replacing imported agricultural commodities and finished products to domestic security. SAF subjects of Krasnodar region made a significant contribution to the increase of efficiency of regional economy. The share of small agricultural farms is 29% of regional production of grain and meat, 36% of milk, 47% of egg, 10% of sugar beet, 30% of sunflower and 95% of potatoes, 70% of vegetables, and 29% of grapes which makes a significant contribution to the process of import substitution. In addition, the SAF showed a large positive impact on the sustainability of farming, the development dynamics of the entire rural economy, increase the competitiveness of the whole field due to the increase in segment sales, improving market sales in the infrastructure. Today SAF perform a priority vector of development of regional agrarian policy. However, when the share of regional agricultural production segment is more than 35%, a small management gets only 10% of the sum of all sources of state support. In recent years, stimulation measures of subjects of small agrarian farms aimed at increasing the size of the land, the abolition of the standards concerning the number of animals, improving lending conditions, facilitating the starting of economic conditions, union efforts to organize sales channels and other programs. However, the situation with crediting SAF is improving too slowly due to lack of sufficient collateral, and only a small part of them can use loans. Besides, the bureaucratic and departmental barriers are still saved. They still face trade discrimination in the retail markets and great difficulties due to the new requirements of the construction markets, the endowment channels marketing of products etc. All this dictates the need for further improvement of the economic mechanism of regulation of small agricultural development