Current status, problems and development prospects of rural territories of the region
The paper deals with the problems of the current state and development prospects of rural areas in the Russian Federation and the Yaroslavl region. The authors give the definition of rural economy functioning in rural areas as a multicultural economy based on agriculture and collective agricultural organizations as economic entities. In this regard, the paper assesses the development trends of the regional agricultural sector and rural areas, provides a detailed analysis of the main economic indicators of agricultural organizations of the Yaroslavl region. The results obtained have shown a sharp reduction in production and resource capacity and the financial crisis faced by agricultural organizations, which does not contribute to the implementation of the requirements of the Doctrine of Food Security and Independence of the region for milk and meat consumption per capita. The rating assessment results describing the rural areas of the municipal districts of the Yaroslavl region on eight socio-economic indicators have shown that more than half of the municipal districts require urgent strengthening of the resource capacity through the development of a regional program of socio-economic development to prevent further depopulation. The authors propose some measures to solve the problem of food security for the regional population through the construction of new livestock breeding farms to grow cattle, as well as the restoration of the pig population in view of their optimized location in the region. The paper notes the relevance of introducing state regulation tools used in the agricultural sector abroad into domestic practice. The authors suggest a set of measures to ensure the economic stability of the agricultural market participants and rural areas based on the adoption of the Federal Law on sustainable development of rural areas and the development of an appropriate state program for its implementation accompanied by an increased degree of state support to the level of expanded reproduction, taking into account the need to improve the public amenities of rural settlements according to standards used in the urban ones.