FEATURES OF MANAGEMENT OF PRODUCTION AND SALES OF SUNFLOWER AND PRODUCTS OF ITS PROCESSING IN RUSSIA
Ensuring food security is one of the key strategic tasks for Russia at the current stage, which is due to the deteriorating political situation, which has a negative impact on foreign trade, thereby limiting the country's food supply with imported goods. Sunflower is one of the basic crop growing areas and is of great practical importance in food and animal husbandry. Despite the fact that the production and processing of sunflower seeds has been dynamically growing in Russia over the past decade, the negative trends of recent years can have a negative impact on the development of this area. In the course of the study, the features of the production and sale of sunflower seeds and products of its processing in Russia at the current stage are considered based on an analysis of the main indicators for the period 2014-2021. It has been established that sunflower production in Russia continues to develop actively, as evidenced by the growth in gross crop yields up to 15.7 million tons, and sown areas - up to 9.8 million hectares. At the same time, over the past 8 years, the country has managed to increase the level of self-sufficiency in sunflower oil by 1.6 times to 289%, which is a high value and indicates a favorable situation in terms of food self-sufficiency. Despite this, the volume of imports to Russia of sunflower seeds for crops remains quite high, which indicates the insufficiency of the country's own seed fund.