Agroindustrial Complex in the Eastern European Countries in the Context of Sustainable Development.

Abstract

The research paper deals with the formation of new scientific solutions concerning evaluation of the development of the agroindustrial complex, its role in ensuring sustainable development of the national economy, identifying problems and developing ways to solve them in the current conditions of the functioning of agrarian production in the countries of Eastern Europe. The research emphasizes the key importance of agrarian production to ensure the food and economic security of Eastern European countries. It has been revealed that the agroindustrial complex plays a significant role in the countries of Eastern Europe, especially as concerns Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania. There are problems with the formation of effective state support of agrarian production in the countries selected for study, especially as regards the countries of Eastern Europe, which are not members of the European Union. The methodology for assessing the development of the agroindustrial complex in Eastern European countries was developed and proposed for use, as well as calculations on its basis were made, which allowed to divide all countries of this region into three groups: countries - outsiders (Ukraine, Moldova, Russia); countries, where the development of agrarian industry is of concern (Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria); countries that need to improve the agrarian sector of the national economy (Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland). A complex of agrarian production problems was identified for each of the Eastern European countries, and the key ways of their elimination were proposed, which are aimed at: reforming the market of agricultural land; stimulating the development of farms; increasing efficiency of state support of agrarian production; intensification of development and introduction of innovations in the agrarian sector; the transformation of the structure of the agro commodities market, including the optimization of their export and import.

Studies in Agro-Industrial Complexes: Analysis of Literature Indexed on the Web of Science 1945-2020

“…Table 2 shows the ten (10) most representative Web of Science Categories. CAI can be seen as the basis for a country's consolidated development, especially in its relationship with food security and economic strength (Shashyna et al, 2018); this corroborates the fact that the Economics category occupies the first position in the ranking with approximately 1/3 of the records. Nevertheless, since in general terms the conceptual spectrum includes an economic interdisciplinary, a conjunction of several other fields of study intrinsically connected, such as agriculture, logistics, the supply of raw materials, inputs, management as a whole and, above all, the focus on the final consumer (Semin & Kondratenko, 2019), the following more expressive categories seem to indicate an alignment with the literature, notably lacking the History category of a separate study, which may allow significant findings.…”

“…Given the strategic character of CAI (Shashyna et al, 2018), the verified increase in the number of publications points to what Kalykova et al (2018) understood it as an "upward movement", especially when advocating the adoption of policies to encourage the development of agro-industrial complexes.…”

“…Agro-industrial complex consists of an interdisciplinary sphere of the economy, a conjunction of the reproduction cycles of specific groups of final products of agricultural raw materials; includes agriculture and industries directly related to agricultural production, transportation, storage, processing of agricultural products and delivery to final consumers, supply of machinery, chemicals and fertilizers, serving agricultural production (Semin & Kondratenko, 2019). The agro-industrial complex (AC) can be seen as the basis for the consolidated development of any country, since it is directly linked to its food security and economic robustness (Shashyna et al, 2018).…”

“…The literature has demonstrated an effort to investigate the development of these agro-industrial conglomerates, mostly in countries like Russia where the government itself has fostered incentives (Kurdyumov, 2019). Ukraine also stands out as the development of agricultural production continues at an accelerated pace and has become the basis for the post-crisis recovery of the country's economy (Shashyna et al, 2018). Governments, development agencies, foundations, among other economic agents have directly and indirectly mobilized investments in agribusiness/agro-industry, using territorial approaches (Fao, 2017) and, in this particular, agro-industrial complex.…”

Ensuring food security and competitiveness of the agro-industrial complex

“…It operates in conditions of weak infrastructure, a large number of intermediary structures, and imperfection of the regulation of market relationships between producers of agricultural goods, processors, and trade. At the same time, the production potential of the agricultural economic sector allows, with rational use, ensuring food security and creating significant export resources, increase in employment in agriculture and the incomes of agricultural producers, and stability of the agricultural and food market (Shashyna et al, 2018;Ighoshemu & Ogidiagba, 2022).…”