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The relevance of this article on the topic: "Features of Investment Activity in Agriculture in the South of Russia and Ways of its Activation" is that at the present time, as a result of the systemic crisis of the Russian economy, a set of objective prerequisites for improving the financial and credit mechanisms in the agro industrial complex has been formed. The fall in the rouble exchange rate to foreign currencies made foreign agricultural products and food too expensive on the Russian market and sales fell sharply in Russia. This led to the emergence of free niches in the domestic agrarian market and increased the competitiveness of domestic agricultural products and food. In these conditions, an important task for Russian agricultural producers is to increase the volume of production and sales of agricultural products, and this requires an increase in production capacity, modernization of the material and technical base. To solve these problems, it is necessary to increase investment in the agricultural sector of the economy, which without improving the existing credit and financial system in the Russian agribusiness sector cannot be done. Based on the goal set by the authors, the subject of the study are factors and patterns that affect investment in agriculture. To write the article, dialectical methods of cognition of socioeconomic, natural-biological processes and phenomena were used as well as the systemic approach: analytical, economic-statistical, monographic, calculating and constructive and expert evaluations. This allowed working out effective measures to intensify investment activity by improving the lending process as the main source of external investment, and solving the problems of financing agricultural organizations, using non-traditional external sources of investment for agriculture in Stavropol Krai.

The spatial development of the agro-industrial complex of the Krasnoyarsk region is very diverse and uneven. This is due to the introduction of high-tech industries in individual territories, which increases their investment attractiveness, and state subsidies on the principle of supporting growth points. The identification of territories requiring a special regime of economic incentives for the purpose of equalizing territorial heterogeneity is proposed to be typified. Generalization of long-term studies of agricultural economists allowed authors to include the natural and climatic conditions and the level of social and economic development, which are characterized by such a set of indicators as (i) the hydrothermal coefficient to the main factors of differentiation of territories; (ii) provision of plants with heat; (iii) soil characteristics; profit per average annual employee; profitability of agricultural production; state support per one agricultural organization; (iv) profit per 1 rub. of state support; (v) level of remuneration of workers; and (vi) rural population growth. Approbation of calculations based on data from 36 districts of the Krasnoyarsk region with the use of an integral indicator, as the average value of their score, made it possible to conclude that 8 districts of the region were in a low socio-economic development group and needed to develop measures to stimulate entrepreneurial initiative with the participation of government funding.

The article examines topical issues of the formation and development of agricultural tourism in rural areas of unrecognized (partially recognized) small states on the example of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO). The purpose of this work is to scientifically substantiate and develop organizational and economic conditions for the formation of agritourism as a factor in the socio-economic development of rural areas. The object of research is agritourism business and its impact on the economy of rural households and the development of rural areas of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO). The scientific novelty of the research lies: in the methodological substantiation of the need to develop agrarian tourism as a special non-agricultural form of family small business in rural settlements; in systematization of various models of agritourism in order to adapt and use the most acceptable forms of them in the conditions of rural areas of the RSO; in development of a system of organizational measures and economic mechanisms for the creation of a republican rural agrarian and tourist cluster, closely interacting with the tourist business community of the neighboring North Caucasian republics of the Russian Federation; in development and substantiation of a basic model of rural family agritourism, based on the historical traditions of Ossetians, who have preserved their identity, culture, language and national flavor of their ancient ancestors - Alans.

The study is devoted to the development of the agrarian sphere of unrecognized (partially recognized) small states, on the example of the Republic of South Ossetia. The purpose of this work is to identify exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the increase in the efficiency of agricultural production within the framework of the export-oriented model of the national economy of the RSO. Research object: the economy of agriculture of the RSO. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the provisions revealing (1) the results of the analysis of criteria, endogenous and exogenous factors affecting the development of South Ossetia, (2) determining the directions of improving the organizational and economic mechanism of agricultural development in the RSO, based on endogenous and exogenous factors, (3) characteristics of the economic -institutional solutions to overcome barriers to intensifying the export of agricultural products, tourist services, etc.