Key Directions and Problems of Efficiency Assessment for State Support of Agriculture

Abstract

The paper substantiates the need for the formation of a set of measures of state support for agriculture. The concepts of "state regulation", "state support", "state assistance" and their goals are considered. The authors highlighted the main parameters of financial support in accordance with the State Program for the Development of Agriculture and the regulation of agricultural products, raw materials and food markets. The article considers the dynamics of the total amount of financial support provided within the State Program and highlights the changes in the composition of its directions at the regional level using the example of the Voronezh region. It is concluded that the set of support directions is constantly changing, and at the regional level, changes occur more often, are distributed relatively evenly in time and, apparently, reflect the current and medium-term needs of the agricultural sector of the region of the Russian Federation. The authors identified three levels of influencing factors upon the decisions in the field of state support for agriculture: the level of national agrarian policy; level of regional agricultural policy; micro level of the needs of individual producers and other entities of the agricultural sector. The article presents the key approaches to assessing the efficiency of the state support for agriculture in accordance with the set goals. The choice of indicators that would allow evaluation of the results of the measures of state support for agriculture is justified.