Scientific Journal of KubSAU

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 main direction of the development of crops in the current year and the next year, according to the authors, still remains the further development of the production. The producers of rice should work to find new efficient rice varieties, to diversify the range of finished products, to realize the possibilities of import-substitution. These data show a rather dynamic development of the grain production in the Krasnodar region, indicate sufficient potential development opportunities of scientific and technological progress, new technologies and systems of machines for the production of grain. An important component of the Russian grain market in the last decade is the factor of grain export. The weakening of the ruble has made foreign trade in grain a very profitable business and in this sector there are new investors who began selling the products abroad, which caused a sharp increase in domestic prices, therefore, from 1 July 2015 new restrictive export duties on grain were introduced. The measure was introduced to increase the attractiveness of the wheat supply to the domestic market and for price controls. A significant growth of exports of wheat flour and wheat-rye (an increase in supply volume in 6 times and in monetary terms in 9.9 times) should be noted as a positive factor for the diversification and growth in the number of technological conversions of the raw materials. Grains today are exported to over 50 countries; we are in the top 5 of largest grain exporters. The analysis of imports of grain shows that the structure of food import in 2014 was 1,22%, and it was mainly seed corn. Much of this imported position was implemented in other regions of our country

Domestic and foreign experience of operation of the segment of "small" rural economy shows that its capabilities are still being used not completely out of the difficulties and risks of development. The main reason for the slow dynamics of the modern development of subjects of small farming (SAF), according to the authors, is the inaccessibility of the credit market in this sphere since the key rate of the Central Bank at 10.5%, which is too high and, therefore, significantly reduces the efficiency of the investments in this risky industrial sector. In addition, the most narrow «neck bottle» is remaining a unit of realization of products of small businesses. The authors propose a refined definition of "small agricultural businesses" that differs from the previous definitions by its conciseness and by including small enterprises of not only 1-st production, but also the 2-nd processing of agricultural sector. The study revealed that the most distinctive features of small agricultural forms are: high autonomy, independence, and self-protection from adverse environmental factors. The authors propose to adjust the long-term regional development program, and suggest the method of determining the capacity of the market for products of small agricultural farms with possibilities of a differentiated accounting of consumers by their income, residency, and consumption of domestic and other animals. They believe that the problem of affordability of lending and perfecting of system of marketing of small agricultural farming today is largely able to solve with the multi-level agricultural credit and sales-living cooperatives. The authors believe that the government should create a high-in-demand SAF productive assets and then transfer them to the operational management of cooperatives, with subsequent transformation of them into equity of the small participants of cooperatives

It is noted that the grain commodity market is the basis of the Russian agro-industrial complex. Earlier the state support was about $4 billion, in 2016 it is expected to reach 237 billion rubles (less than $3 billion). Russia's accession to the WTO brought its farmers more minuses than pluses, less regulation opportunities, protection of the market. The urgency of improving the development methodology, development of practical recommendations for the decision of efficiency enhancing of the grain market, increased due to the globalization of socio-economic processes in the world. Over the last 5 years in the Krasnodar region state support of agro-industrial complex amounted to 32 billion rubles ($0.4 billion), or 1 664 rub/ha ($20/ha) in 2014. Today, once again the growth of prices for supply of industrial resources has overcome the growth of prices for production of agriculture products that seriously has limited the development of the agro industry. The authors consider that the success of the grain industry depends on combination of the following factors: 1) modern equipment and technology; 2) qualified professionals; 3) state financial support; 4) reasonable credit resources. Now nobody needs production at any cost, it necessary to lower the cost of grain, to get the maximum profit and invest it in modernization of the enterprise. To increase productivity, to produce more at a less cost. For producers of grain it's time to invest in the development of their own livestock, or they will be late for this growing market. This vector of development will improve the stability of the grain business and the accompanying livestock, will reduce the seasonal dependence of financial flows, reduce unit costs, increase profitability, competitiveness, expand business, create new jobs, increase the number of its buyers

Theoretical, transformational and practical provisions for the development and regulation of small businesses and farms in the country's economy and agriculture are being cleared up. In the process of studying the problem we used logical reasoning, methods of comparing, and monographic, economic and statistical methods also. It is shown that small farming forms (SFF) in agriculture are essential for progressive development of agriculture, which is now recognized as a growth point of import substitution in all national economy. Given the author's interpretation of the category definition "small farming form" in agriculture differs from other definitions, in a more complete evaluation and statistics, provisions regarding private cottages and households as the SFF, their locality of functioning, independence in taking risks, increased adaptation, economic and legal binding, spectrum of production. The article shows the history of definitions of small business and small farming forms, stages of small business development, the scope of its practice abroad and in our country. It is said that a leading role in the formation of small farms belonged to households, which are still playing a leading role in production of agricultural products for their own consumption (without selling on the market). It is noted that at the present stage of industrial transformation of small businesses and small farms they often have a low mechanization level, high cost structure of manual labor. They have problems in adapting to the sector of services, in embedding into a complex system of relationships with medium and large business on the basis of technological specialization and also promoting innovation. It is emphasized that today the growing role of small businesses, small farms makes it more pragmatic to assess the prospects of development of this sector in our country

The article shows the role of famous scientists, academician Ivan T. Trubilin and professor Viktor V. Eroshkin in the organization of agricultural science in our region who have shown outstanding leaders of the largest agricultural University in the country, managed to organize and direct the work of a large group on the improvement of quality of preparation of specialists of agriculture, the solution of urgent scientific problems of the agroindustrial complex development. Under the leadership of the rector Ivan Trubilin, the science in the Kuban State Agrarian University (KubSAU ) has risen to a new level. The research was conducted on the plan of scientific-research work of University, Federal and regional scientific and technical programs. In their implementation, there were involved professors, teachers, researchers, doctoral students, post-graduate students. His scientific works and research on the development of scientific problems to improve economic efficiency and organizational forms of agricultural production are being continued and developed by the scientists of KubSAU. For many years, V. Eroshkin as a brilliant scientist worked together with academician I. Trubilin like his companion and the assistant in science. He has published more than 100 scientific works. The most important ones were: "Economic efficiency of oilseeds cultivation ", "Oilseeds in virgin areas", "Сalculation of crops acreage on the bases of perspective plan for the development of collective farms", "Principles of labor scientific organization", "Intensive tractors use and lowering work technical cost in collective farms". Under his leadership, dozens of dissertations were approved. His lectures were always marked with originality and accessibility and his ideas were easily perceived by students. All who knew and worked together with academician I. Trubilin and professor V. Eroshkin, will always remain these dedicated scientists, who were strictly following the principles of academic science

It is proposed to differentiate the housing by the various qualifying characteristics, including ways of conducting transactions on the primary and secondary markets, organized and unorganized; in and out of the exchange markets. The signs of the functional purpose of the housing market are systematized, the composition of market participants are detailed. The author provides the statistical information on the key participants in the regional housing market, and the main investors in this market, indicating areas of interest. As investors, in the local housing market are considered: the organs of management of state property, municipal property, civil persons, legal entity, organizations, physical and legal foreign persons, and other participants in housing projects. It is noted that in practice, the greatest distribution was achieved by the following forms of participation in the construction: equity, the issuance of securities to attract investors, banking and mortgage lending. Than, this practices are analyzed, and the advantages of each of these systems are systematized. There is also a system of performance indicators of the regional housing market, consisting of three groups: volumes of housing construction, the cost and availability of housing. For the third group, it is proposed to add the housing affordability index for which the method of its calculation is shown. The simplicity of the recommended approach allows to carry out operative calculations in the practice of construction with determination of affordability of housing for certain categories of population based on its income, at all regional housing markets. The economic essence of this indicator characterizes the ratio of the market price of housing and the income level of the population. The retrospective and prospective trends of development of regional housing policy are shown

The goals of import substitution, import data and export resource features of the agrarian economy, through which you can generate significant competitive advantage are discussed. It is noted that the flight of the capital abroad creates jobs not for our economy, but for our competitors, that low 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 proposed to establish a network of specialized information centers to support import substitution with a database of technological profiles of organizations. The author block diagram of the information support and import substitution is given. The importance of federal and regional programs functioning in the import substitution is noted. The author's plan for their implementation is given . Predictive modeling of short-term, medium-term and long-term positive and negative consequences of import substitution and export orientation are implemented. The authors stress that the substitution should be seen as a transition to export orientation of the agricultural economy.

The economic position of the agricultural sector of the Krasnodar region and the place of small business in economy of the region is considered. It is noted that in structure of agricultural production of the country today the region produces 8%, in gross regional product – about 13% of the total material production. The main share of agricultural production is still produced by agricultural organizations, in 2013, they generated more than 61% of total production, farm population - 24%, domestic farms - 15%. Regional plant growing today produces more than 72% of all agricultural products. In the sphere of animal husbandry, the authors recommend stabilizing dairy herd, to restore the normal functioning of pig farms, build and reconstruct farms and complexes, to increase the supply of quality feeds, to restore the productivity of animals and poultry, the quality level of the staffing industry. It is noted that the production of milk has become a pretty beneficial business; its profitability has risen to 37%. But meat production remains unprofitable due to weak motivation of investing, and problems with lending. There are also serious problems in technical support, especially to the sector of small farm management. As a result, producers suffer from significant financial losses due to the great timing of major agricultural companies. Attention is drawn to the unused opportunities of leasing machinery and equipment, negative policy of low wages for rural workers, and high number of farms which are in bankruptcy proceedings. To increase the stability of development of the agrarian economy, the authors recommend taking into account the peculiarities of financial-economic activity of small rural businesses

The article describes a new method of modeling and factor analysis of industrial competitiveness, using the methodology of the transactional analysis in the study of competitive processes involving industrial enterprises