ANALYSIS OF INTER-INDUSTRY PROPORTIONS OF THE AGRO-FOOD COMPLEX IN RUSSIAN REGIONS UNFAVORABLE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

The purpose of the study is to assess the proportion of the development of related sectors of agriculture and food industry in the regions that are unfavorable for agricultural production. All regions are divided into three groups, due to territorial differences in the conditions of economic activity: regions of the European part of Russia, regions of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, and regions with developed mining industry, which were excluded from the relevant groups on a territorial basis. For the analysis of the developing proportions of sectors of agriculture and the food industry in the regions, unfavorable for agriculture, there were used statistical and abstract-logical methods of research, including the analysis of absolute cost statistical indicators: gross production of agriculture and volume of the shipped goods in the food industry, and also a number of relative indicators, including: the ratio of production of the food industry and agriculture, gross production of agriculture on one employee; the volume of shipped products of the food industry per employee. The difference between the volume of shipped products of the food industry and agriculture per employee in the economy of the region is analyzed. It is revealed that the food industry of the studied regions is characterized by a low level of development because of the peculiarities of the production process (seasonality, underutilization of capacities, a high degree of depreciation of fixed assets, etc.), and of close links with underdeveloped agriculture. Thus, achievement of proportions of development of agricultural industries and the corresponding industries of the food and processing industry has to become the defining factor in development of measures for state support of regions that are unfavorable of agriculture.