Importance of agriculture as a central link of agro-industrial complex for ensuring the food security of the Republic of Belarus cannot be overestimated. However, low profitability of greater part of agricultural producers along with a complicated financial situation require development of ways to improve the efficiency, competitiveness and stability of the industry focusing on improving price, credit and tax policies for agricultural companies. It is also vital to intensify investment activities aimed at a wider use of innovations. When improving the management system, considerable attention should be paid to integrated formations. Due to implementation of quality management systems, it is possible to increase the quality and safety of agricultural products. The paper dwells on the main factors and conditions having effect on raising the efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural sector and stability of its development. Despite significant achievements and positive results in the AIC of Belarus, a number of engineering, economic and social problems remain. Solutions are proposed to solve some of them. In particular, attention is paid to further improvement of economic mechanism of management, the most important components of which are pricing, crediting, taxation and state support and investment for agriculture. All these, combined with proposals to improve the management system of the agrarian sector in conditions of ongoing transformational changes and along with solving problems in activities of integrated formations, as well as implementation of proposals to improve foreign economic activity in the agro-industrial sector, can ensure stable and efficient functioning of agrarian sector. The proposed priority trends can be used for improving the state agrarian policy measures.
The article discusses the experience of foreign countries in supporting investment and innovation in agriculture: the principles of functioning of innovation infrastructure entities (agricultural parks, information and consulting systems and technology platforms), the features of their creation and development from the emergence of a scientific idea to implementation in production. Proposals are made for using foreign experience in the agricultural sector of the economy of the Republic of Belarus.
The role of innovation in the modern world is difficult to overestimate. Innovations perform not only an economic function, but also cover all aspects of society's life and affect personal issues. In the long term, further economic and cultural growth along the intensive path of development is impossible without innovation. Currently, innovation is an active link in all spheres of society. It is impossible to imagine the modern world without implemented innovations, and without future ones that contribute to further evolution. In modern conditions, improving the efficiency of production can be achieved main-ly through the development of innovation processes that are ultimately expressed in new technologies and new types of com-petitive products. Thus, the basis for the development of the country's economy is innovation, and the main guideline is the introduction of new technologies. Innovation has become a major driver of economic and social development. Innovative activity has brought the world society to a new and higher stage of development. The concept of "innovation" is used almost everywhere. Innovation can be understood as the final result of innovative activity, which is embodied in the form of a new or improved product introduced on the market, a new or improved technological process used in practice, a new approach to social problems. In principle, the term "innovation" can be interpreted in different ways; it has an infinite number of formu-lations and definitions. This article reveals the concept of innovation and defines the role of innovation activity in improv-ing production efficiency. Conclusion. Priority should be given to the development of the country based on enhancing innovative activities in the most knowledge-intensive and high-tech sectors of the national economy, which are the most significant and progressive engines for the development of the national economy. Orientation of the development of the national economy towards en-hancing innovative activities using scientific methods and approaches is the key to the success and prosperity of the country, increasing the welfare and living standards of the population. Keywords: innovation, innovation processes, innovation activity, innovation policy, statistics, competitiveness.
This paper provides an analysis of agro-food industry growth in Belarus, which is one of the key industries in the economy. Such an analysis allowed us to understand the main forces of relatively successful development. We pointed out that state owned companies in the Belarusian agro-food industry operate as de facto strongly integrated corporate groups which ensures reliable supply of raw materials. In addition, we looked at the government directed lending programs which, through allocation of credit, push funds toward priority subsectors.
Based on the systematization and clarification of the theoretical and methodological foundations on the issues under study, scientific and methodological proposals have been developed to improve investment and innovation activities, tax planning in agriculture, the mechanism for pricing and distributing income between the areas of the agroindustrial complex by stages of distribution.
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