Due to its specifics agriculture is very inert and cannot promptly respond to the changing environment. As a result the signs of crisis appear therein later and the after-crisis recovery goes slower than in other sectors of the economy

In the beginning of 2010 the RF President approved the Doctrine of Food Security worked out in the framework of the Strategy of National Security of the Russian Federation till 2020 (enacted by the RF President Decree No. 537 of May 12, 2009). For the first time the Doctrine treats food security...

20 years have passed since the start of reforms in Russian agriculture. It’s a term allowing to draw some conclusions. Despite all the inconsistency, contradictoriness and non-integrity of government efforts, remarkable changes have taken place in the sector. This review is not supposed to...

Russian Abstract: Предложены методы оценки влияния аграрной политики в целом и отдельных ее мероприятий на развитие сельского хозяйства, проведена оценка влияния...

The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia’s accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domes?? c pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector...

At present about 4% of Russia’s GDP is generated in agriculture; however, the sector still accounts for 9.7% of the total number of employed in domestic economy with 26% of the country’s population living in rural areas. The latter indicator has remained actually unchanged throughout the 10...

The short-term consequences of the bans imposed in 2014 on pork imports into Russia from the countries that used to be major suppliers of meat to this country are as follows: an altered geography of import supplies, rising prices on the pork market and related markets, and plummeting consumer...