In the conditions of insufficient use of the possibilities of cooperation in improving the efficiency of agricultural production, improving the food provision to the population through the development of cooperative entrepreneurship, research work was carried out to substantiate the essence of cooperative entrepreneurship, its features in the agricultural sector, develop recommendations for ensuring the development and effective functioning of cooperative forms of management on an entrepreneurial basis. The studies were carried out using monographic, abstract-logical, computational-constructive, economic-statistical methods. The information base for the study was official regulations, materials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, official data from Rosstat and Tatarstanstat for 2015-2020, the results of the authors’ own observations and sociological surveys conducted in certain municipal districts of the Republic of Tatarstan. As the main results of the study, the substantiation of the essence and features of cooperative entrepreneurship in the agrarian sector is presented, the presence of a significant reserve for the development of agricultural cooperation through the involvement of non-cooperative peasant (farmer) households and households in cooperatives is revealed. Revealed: insufficient preparedness of managers and specialists of agricultural cooperatives in the organization of effective entrepreneurial activity; lack of financial resources for a significant part of the newly registered cooperatives to carry out full-fledged entrepreneurial activities; shortcomings in the current legislation on agricultural cooperation. It is proposed to deepen scientific research, improve the training and advanced training of cooperative personnel in the field of organizing effective business activities, intra-cooperative relations in compliance with cooperative principles; allocation of additional financial resources to support newly registered cooperatives; improvement of the current legislation in the field of agricultural cooperation, the introduction of statistical reporting on the results of the work of cooperatives
The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the need to improve the agricultural and food policy of the state in the development of small forms of business and cooperation in rural areas. The subject of the research is a system of organization of activities of small agribusiness, agricultural cooperatives in the current social and economic conditions. The novelty of the research lies in identifying trends in the development of small forms of business and justifying the necessary priority measures to improve the organization of activities of small agribusiness entities. The main results of the study - reviewed the current state of the organization of activities of small businesses, citizens leading personal subsidiary farms, agricultural cooperatives, their contribution to gross agricultural production, social and economic development of rural areas, directions and measures of state support, relations with executive authorities on areas, factors hindering their effective functioning, indicated directions for improving the effective functioning. The proposed article theoretical and practical recommendations can be used in research on the development of small farms and cooperatives in rural areas, with the scientific substantiation of the basic directions, methods and mechanisms for the implementation of agri-food policy. The practical significance of the research results is the possibility of their use in the development of agrarian policy, the formation of effective mechanisms of state influence on the development of the agri-food complex at the federal and regional levels to achieve high targets.
An increase the efficiency of agricultural production is the most important economic issue at the present stage. However, according to the authors’ opinion, the sharpness of the problem for a long time is underestimated and continues to be underestimated in the agrarian policy of the country. The consequences of such attitude to the problems of agricultural development particularly had a negative impact on the results of the agricultural producers in 1991-1998 years, when investment in agriculture was sharply reduced, the production potential of the sector has been undermined. The agricultural production fell by 50%, compared to the pre-reform period, 88% of agricultural organizations were unprofitable. During 1999 - 2013 years, the government of the country, scientists carried out considerable work to ensure the effective development of agriculture. But, nevertheless, in 2013, the level of agricultural production was by 10.3% lower, than in the pre-reform 1990 year, the financials continue to worsen. According to the authors, so that to ensure the conditions for agricultural producers for effective functioning, expanded reproduction, it requires substantially to increase the level of state support to agriculture, to improve the economic mechanism of management, to develop management forms manifolds, under which we mean a rational, mutually reinforcing combination of different forms of management, based on different forms of ownership, ensuring the efficient use of available natural, labour, material and financial resources. In the paper the author’s definition of management forms is given. The development of forms of management and ownership in the agricultural sector should be seen as a continuous process. The composition and structure of the management forms in the agrarian sector will be updated with the development of market relations, economic conditions change.
The article deals with the topical issues of the institutional reforms in the agricultural sector, taking into account Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization. The The paper substantiates the necessity of rapid modernization of agricultural production in order to increase the competitiveness of Russian agricultural products in domestic and foreign markets due to the country’s accession to the WTO, a significant increase the size of the state support of agriculture in the early years of the state program. The tendencies were revealed, the forecast of the development of various forms of economic activity in Russia and the Republic of Tatarstan for the period until 2017 was given.
The article discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of the development of agricultural cooperation in Russia, based on the analysis of the activities of cooperatives, the role of the cooperative structure in ensuring the food security of the country is substantiated, recommendations are given for improving the formation and organization of the activities of agricultural cooperatives, measures for state support of the cooperative movement in the countryside.
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