THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE AND THE ONGOING SYSTEMIC AGRARIAN CRISIS
The article deals with the basic indicators of the current socio-economic state of Russian agriculture. Particular attention is paid to the extreme discrepancy between certain improvements, of mostly quantitative nature, in the development of agriculture, and the ongoing global manifestations of the agrarian crisis. The gap should be overcome primarily through further progress in agricultural labor welfare. The most important factor is to be the elimination of the misuse of land, the latter being the major means of production in agriculture.