Blockchain technology is primarily associated with cryptocurrency, but the potential of this technology is enormous and can be a base not only in finance, but also in other sectors of the economy. This article discusses application prospects of blockchain technologies in agricultural production. Particular attention is paid to the possibility of the formation of new, more efficient business models at the farm level. Given seven possible areas of using blockchain technology in agricultural production, affecting both small farmers and international relations in the field of food security of the member countries of the Eurasian Economic Community. Also in this article the first successful examples of implementation experiences blockchain technology in agriculture are described.
This article contains the economic processes trend-seasonality identification and its analysis. The object of research is the water delivery market - HOD (Home & Office Delivery). The subject of the study is the drinking mineral water sales time series (TS) in the Krasnodar Territory in 19-liter PET bottles. The authors applied the Chetverikov’s iterative filtering method to the time series, implemented in the MS Excel environment. As the work result a step-by-step illustration of the filtering application to time series is presented, deviations are estimated, trend and the wave intensity coefficient are given. The practical significance of the study is that the characteristics obtained are the basis for subsequent effective forecasting.