AN ASSESSMENT OF RUSSIA''S FOOD INDEPENDENCE IN THE FORMAT OF THE MULTI-LAYERED AGRARIAN ECONOMY
The difficult macroeconomic situation in the country, which has developed recently; the emergence of risks and threats to the economic security of the state caused by the aggravation of Russia's foreign economic relations with the countries of the west; the increase in the openness of the national agro-food market associated with accession to the WTO and the deepening of the integration processes within the framework of the Unified Energy System led to the need to ensure Russia's food independence. The article is devoted to one of the key regional problems - the implementation of the policy of import substitution in the sphere of agricultural production, which has become a vector of development of modern agricultural production.The article provides an assessment of the level of Russia's food independence as a target for the development of multi-purpose economic forms in agriculture in the global turbulence of the global economy. The contribution of various agribusiness structures to the development of agricultural production and ensuring the country's food security has been determined. The practical importance of the article is due to the fact that it provides calculations of generalized indicators of the country's food independence assessment for basic types of food both in the context of federal districts and in the context of farm categories. The reserves of growth in milk production based on the unused potential of the European part of the Russian Federation are justified.