Additional government subsidies based on typing of agrarian territories

Abstract

Questions of rendering additional government support to regions taking into account natural-climatic and socio-economic conditions were considered. It has been revealed that the methods proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for classifying territories as unfavorable for agriculture with the purpose of their further subsidization do not completely reflect the condition of the agricultural production. To adjust parameters, a retrospective review of research studies on territorial heterogeneity in agriculture is given, which has allowed forming a complex of factors and criteria for typing of areas. It is proposed to replace the index of the farmland location height by warmth availability of crops, to clarify criteria for social status of a territory by the indicator of wage level of agricultural workers as well as to introduce four indicators of the economic development level: profit per employee, profitability of the agricultural production, government support per agricultural enterprise, profit per ruble of government support. The typing model was developed and tested in Krasnoyarsk Territory, where three types of areas have been identified in terms of natural-climatic conditions and socio-economic development: areas with high, medium and low levels of performance. It is proposed to attract additional subsidies to the regions of the second and third types for sustained development of agricultural production. In this regard, these territories need to make changes to socio-economic development programs in order to reduce risks of farming.