Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The level of competitiveness of the agricultural sector depends on the effective implementation of the import substitution policy and food security in the region in which all categories of the population at any one time must have physical and economic opportunities needed to get enough and safe food for an active, full and healthy life. In this context, the problem of increasing the competitiveness of regional agriculture in the new economic environment is relevant. Competitiveness characterizes the concentrated expression of the totality of possibilities of managing subjects of agriculture produce and to bring the products (goods, works, services) to the consumer. Solving the problem of increasing the competitiveness of regional agriculture is closely linked to an increase in the effectiveness of the quality management of products, increasing profitability of production, improving the system of state regulation of the agrarian sector of the economy. Principles of creation of an effective mechanism of state regulation and support the competitiveness of the agro-industrial complex include: agro-industrial protectionism; program-targeted regulation and maintenance of the guaranteed state support for agribusiness; efficient use of resources. The priority areas to ensure the competitiveness of regional agriculture are: to create conditions for the development of innovation and investment environment, the improvement of financial and economic state of the industry and agribusiness organizations, improvement of state support of the agrarian sector mechanisms

There were substantiated the urgency and the necessity of state regulation of domestic agrarian production under conditions of import substitution. There was implemented the systematization of scientific views on the issues of directions and instruments of state regulation of the agrarian sphere. There was conducted a complex analysis of the efficiency of the functioning of agricultural organizations in the Krasnodar region and there was assessed the effectiveness of the system of state support of agricultural production in the region. There were determined the actual trends of improving the functions of the state in the conditions of implementing the policy of import substitution and the need to strengthen the state regulation of the agricultural sector of the economy. There was revealed the content of factors limiting the interaction and mechanisms of coordination of components of the system of state regulation of the agrarian sphere of the regional economy. There were substantiated the priorities of the Krasnodar region which include the adaptation of normative-legal base to modern economic realities, the creation of a set of conditions for accelerated technical and technological modernization of production, the development of the institutional environment, the support of entrepreneurship, the promotion of private-state partnership, the accelerated formation of social and production infrastructure of rural areas

The article examines features of the functioning of the agro-industrial complex of Russia and the Krasnodar region in the economic crisis. It substantiates the urgency of adaptation of state regulation of agro-industrial complex mechanisms to modern economic realities, we have disclosed functions and principles for the development of regional policy strategy in the agricultural sector. It is proved, that the system of state regulation of regional agro-industrial complex should correlate with the priorities of the development of its main component - agriculture and to promote structural reforms in the agricultural sector, enhance its innovation and investment potential and maintain the social orientation of the agrarian reforms. Improving the mechanisms of state support of the agro-industrial complex of Russia and the Krasnodar region requires a special approach in relation to the country's membership in the World Trade Organization. Due to this, we have proposed the adjustment of state support instruments of domestic agro-industrial complex, which involves the use of priority measures of the "green box", including an increase in funding for research in agriculture, development of an effective institutional environment, which will stimulate the efficiency and competitiveness of the agricultural sector

We have analyzed the system of state regulation of regional food security and substantiated the main directions of its software under the sanctions regime, presented the scheme of the constituent elements of regional food security, including the purpose and the main task. We have revealed the features of the modern food problems of Russia and its regions, systematized the negative effects of international sanctions, assessed the obstacles to implementation of the accelerated import substitution policy. An analysis of exports and imports of basic foodstuffs in the Krasnodar region for 2011-2015 has been shown. We have also presented the dynamics of the average per capita consumption of food among the population of Russia and the Krasnodar region. The work substantiates the necessity to diversify trade relations and the search for potential investors for the implementation of pilot innovative projects in the real sector of the economy of the region. It substantiates the actual directions of optimization tools of state regulation of the food security of the Krasnodar region in the conditions of modern economic realities. It is proved that the effective implementation of the regional agricultural policy requires a development strategy for the agricultural sector, which expresses the priority of the state in relation to agriculture and includes the presence of a real agrarian protectionism