Scientific Journal of KubSAU

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 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 paper clarifies the conceptual apparatus of subjects of small farms in agriculture, sup-plemented theory of the balance development of the market products, systematized the in-struments of state control of the development process of SFB in AIC subject to the condi-tions of economic space WTO

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 reviews financial and other criteria indicators, related to the production of small agricultural farms. Our law establishes that the annual turnover for micro-entity shall not exceed the amount of 60 million rubles, or USD 755.6 thousands at the current exchange rate (which at 20.01.2016 is 79.41 rubles/USD). For the category of small businesses, the ceiling of the cash proceeds must be in the range of 60 to 400 million rubles (in dollar terms from USD 0.756 to USD 5.037 million). Respectively for the medium enterprises criteria, revenue must be from 400 million to 1 billion rubles, or USD 5.037 and USD 12.259 million). The size of the business over 1 billion rubles should be classified as Large Businesses. According to the Federal law No. 209 financial data levels must be adjusted after five years of operations. All commercial organizations with less than 15 employees/ (inclusive) are classified as Micro Enterprises, and with 16 to 100 employees – to the category Small Enterprises. /Accordingly, medium-sized enterprises are organizations with 101 to 250 employees. Today, it is noted that in World’s practice, the criterion for the classification of enterprises to the relevant category is defined not by generated financial flows and assets of the enterprise, but by simple employ. In our practice, simultaneous consideration of the number of employees, annual receipts, number of livestock, and area of agricultural land make it possible to analyze dynamics of productivity using small agricultural farms, management decisions on investment expediency of innovations, improvement of production technologies, and infrastructure of product realization