To the Question of Justification of the System of Agrotechcentres
The effective functioning of the agro-industrial complex ensures the formation and maintenance of food security of the region and the country. One of the limiting factors in the development of the Russian agricultural sector is the high degree of deterioration of tractor fleet, which is associated largely with the destruction of the existing system of maintenance and repair of agricultural machinery, which could not but aff ect the performance. The study was carried out by analyzing the data of the Federal state statistics service, the data of the Ministry of agriculture of the Orenburg region and according to the opinion poll of heads of municipalities of the Orenburg region. The goal is to analyze the availability and condition of the machine and tractor fleet of agricultural producers in Russia and Orenburg region and to determine the need for services in maintenance and repair of agricultural machinery. To improve the effi ciency of the use of technology it is necessary to reorganize the system of technical service and to introduce a new method of maintenance of the machine and tractor fl eet. The worked out models will help to manage the processes of development and placement of agrotechnical service enterprises, to determine the needs in fixed assets, investments, the volume of loading of existing and unused production areas, personnel. According to the results of the study, the need for the creation and development of a network of agrotechservice enterprises in of plant growing with the developed level of technical potential on the basis of modernization of system of maintenance and repair of agricultural machines as the main block of the food complex of agro-industrial complex was defined.