DEVELOPMENT AND INTRODUCTION OF INNOVATIONS IS RELEVANT PROBLEM OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA
Nowadays innovative processes in agriculture proceed slowly. This leads to the fact that scientific achievements and best practices are not sufficiently considered in the industry. In particular it concerns the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The article deals with the analysis of proposed measures for developing the innovation activity in the republic on the basis of the program “Development of agriculture and regulation of agricultural products, raw materials and food markets for 2014-2020”. The insufficiency of funds allocated for the solution of this problem is emphasizes. Data on production output in money terms that confirm that innovation processes are not efficient enough are analyzed. So, the statistics show the production growth, but this comes at the expense of prices and area expansion. For example, this fact refers to winter wheat, maize and other grain crops. The yielding capacity of the main crops is also growing, but remains far below the potential of agricultural enterprises in the Republic of North-Ossetia-Alania. The given in the article data indirectly indicate the low level of innovative processes almost in all fields of agricultural production. And this occurs despite the fact that the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania has a large number of scientific personnel of high qualification and great potential for innovations in agriculture. On the example of Gorsky State Agrarian University the relevance of the current agricultural researches is considered and the low introduction level of their results into the production is observed. The main reason for this phenomenon is the lack of the state financing and the poor economic state of agrarian enterprises in the Republic. The approximate organizational scheme of the proposed centre to introduce innovations with the complex funding that combines monetary state support and self-supporting activity form is given.