Subject. The article addresses the activities of the agro-industrial complex of Russia to ensure the country's food security in the context of sanctions, using the case of the most important sectors of crop production. Objectives. The aims are to perform a retrospective analysis of the grain and sugar beet industries development in Russia, to describe the role of the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation in ensuring the country's food security in the context of foreign trade restrictions. Methods. The study employs methods of analysis and synthesis, grouping and comparison, abstraction, generalization, and analogy. The dynamics of the main parameters characterizing the activity of the most important branches of crop production was analyzed on the basis of statistical data, using the methods of mathematical modeling and systems analysis. Results. The presented analysis helped identify the main trends in the development of the grain and sugar beet subcomplexes of the agro-industrial complex, to assess the achieved levels of provision of the population with the main food resources and the processing industries of the agro-industrial complex of Russia with agricultural resources. The achieved levels of provision with food resources correspond to the viewpoints of specialists and the World Health Organization on rational levels of consumption. Conclusions. At present Russia has a real opportunity to maintain a high level of consumption of agricultural products by the population, to provide the processing industry with agricultural raw materials, to increase the export of agricultural products of the most important sectors of the agro-industrial complex.

Subject. The article addresses the activities of sugar beet and sugar industries of Russia and Ukraine to ensure the food security of these countries under sanctions. Objectives. The aim is to consider the origin, formation, and activities of sugar beet industry in the said countries, describe and compare certain results of retrospective analysis of these industries’ development in the context of increasingly tougher regime of foreign trade restrictions. Methods. The study draws on methods of analysis and synthesis, grouping and comparison, abstraction, generalization, and analogy. It employs the analysis of statistical data, using the methods of mathematical modeling, and systems analysis. Results. The analysis of trends in the development of sugar beet industries in Russia and Ukraine enabled to describe the levels of provision of the population with sugar and confectionery, and the provision of the food and processing industry with sugar and by-products of its production. Conclusions. At present, Russia has a real opportunity, to maintain a high level of consumption of sugar and confectionery by the population of the country; to provide sugar and by-products of its production to the food and processing industries; to increase the export of sugar beet products of the agro-industrial complex of Russia. The findings can be used in long-term planning of the Russian sugar beet industry development and in scientific research.

Subject. The article addresses the economic, scientific, technological, and production activities of processing plants within the agri-industrial complex. Objectives. The study aim to analyze and describe the specifics of storing perishable agricultural products, and the impact on both the further processing and final results of a processing enterprise. Methods. We employ methods of analysis and synthesis, grouping and comparison, abstraction, generalization, and analogy. We provide a mathematical model that describes the sugar beet processing, taking into account the level of sugar content, based on methods of mathematical modeling and optimization theory. Results. Our analysis of the influence of storage time of perishable agricultural products on their further processing showed that this factor can have a serious impact on the results of processing enterprises. We investigated the issue, using the case of such an important technical culture as sugar beet. We highlight an important factor, which can significantly improve the results of economic activity of enterprises, i.e. the formation of a schedule for the order of processing of sugar beet with different levels of sugar content. Conclusions. To maximize the final output, the sugar beet processing should start with batches of maximum sugar content. We provide assessments, characterizing the level of final output, should this rule be violated. The findings may serve as a basis for developing more general mathematical models, which describe the sugar beet processing and consider other factors, including the dynamics of the process of beet pile fields replenishment with sugar beet of various sugar content.

Subject. The article considers activities of the Russian Federation and the Russian agro-industrial complex within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in the interests of ensuring Russia's food security under sanctions. Objectives. The aims are to analyze the activities of the agro-industrial complex of the EAEU member States to ensure collective food security and economic integration of the EAEU, to define the EAEU contribution to Russia's food security in conditions of increasingly tightening regime of foreign trade restrictions. Methods. The study draws on methods of analysis and synthesis, grouping and comparison, abstraction, generalization, and analogy. Trends in the main parameters of the activities of the agro-industrial complex of the EAEU member States were examined based on statistical data analysis, using the methods of mathematical modeling and systems analysis. Results. The paper presents some results of the analysis of activities of the agro-industrial complex of the EAEU member States to ensure collective food security of the Eurasian Economic Union and its economic integration, defines the role and contribution of the EAEU to Russia's food security under the regime of foreign trade restrictions. Conclusions. At present, Russia maintains a high level of availability of agricultural products to its population and raw agricultural resources to the domestic food and processing industry provides stable supplies of agricultural products and raw materials to a number of EAEU member countries. There are significant reserves to increase interstate trade in agricultural products and raw agricultural resources within the EAEU market.