FOOD SECURITY OF THE REGION: THE ANALYSIS OF IMPORT SUBSTITUTION IN THE TAMBOV REGION
This article considered actual problems of ensuring food security of Russia, revealed six integrated groups of foodstuff on which at the developed volumes of consumption of the population of the Tambov region there are possibilities of export of the food to other regions of Russia. Authors defined the problem sectors of production of the food which aren't allowing to satisfy in full needs of the population of the region for consumption of the food and demanding development of policy of import substitution and also allocated risks of its implementation. Authors offered the expected model of production of gross output of agriculture in general and separately on production of animal husbandry and plant growing, pointing to prospects of their growth and revealed the structural changes reflecting specialization of the region in production of plant growing (grain and commercial crops) and animal husbandry (meat and dairy cattle breeding, pig-breeding and poultry farming).