THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION OF AGRICULTURAL FOOD MARKET
The article addresses theoretical and practical aspects of governmental regulation of agricultural food market. The authors clarify the essence, key tasks, and methods of governmental regulation of agricultural food market in the current conditions and consider the experience of advanced countries, which proves the necessity of active governmental influence on demand and supply formation for agricultural raw materials and products. It is suggested to view the governmental regulation of agricultural food market as a complex system of legal, economic, organizational and administrative measures including resources, implementation mechanism, and management apparatus that provide direct relations and feedback between the state, consumers and manufacturers. Self-supply of the Russian market with key types of food products was analyzed defining the factors that negatively influence the development of the Russian agricultural food market and require priority attention and adequate administrative measures at the national and regional levels. In order to solve the problem of self-supply of the Russian market with agricultural raw materials and food products the authors propose a complex system of governmental measures that address the following aspects: protection of internal agricultural food market and export stimulation; governmental support for strategically important industries of agriculture and activities on the basis of modernization and updates of their material and technical base; legal base for creation of a transparent system of merchandising of the main types of agricultural raw materials and food products; development of infrastructure of the agricultural food market; strengthening of control for implementation of the antimonopoly legislation; maximal leveling of price disparity; increasing the effective demand; strengthening the responsibility of all administrative and management structures for the results of economic activities of all market subjects and standards of living in the territories under their jurisdiction, etc.