Regional food market: factors of growth of the agro-industrial firms. Final output under the conditions of a transitional economy (116)

Theme Track: Sectoral Changes and New Markets - Agrar Sector

Author:
Pismennaya, Anna

During the years of reforms in the agro-industrial complex of Russia the economic forms were changed along with the land ownership relations, the price mechanism was liberalized, and new banking and financial and credit institutions were created. To assess the effectiveness of these measures and measure the efficiency of the transformations the authors suggest that a theoretical and methodological approach based on the measuring of the final results of the agro-industrial production and identifying the market factors affecting their dynamics be applied. The final results of operation of agro-industrial firms are viewed as a relatively independent subsystem interrelated with the economic and social blocks of the entire economic complex. When studying the dynamics of the final results as the main condition of saturation of the food market, a most important becomes the task of creation of a mechanism enabling to consistently link this subsystem with other blocks of the social and economic mechanism of transition to the market.

The paper contains the calculations of the final output cost parameters (added value) made on the basis of the agro-industrial complex inter-branch balances. Also it presents the analysis of dynamic series of the agro-industrial complex's gross and final output, and the classification of the market factors of growth of the added value for agro-industrial firms which includes the production-technological, organizational-economic and legal blocks. Beside using the final output cost parameters to coordinate the producer's and consumer's interests, study the market conjuncture and assess the efficiency of the external economic connections the authors propose natural exponents of the final output. The element structure of the final output, when such an approach is applied, includes production and non-production consumption, export, food stock and reserve addition.

The authors employed the methodological principle of separation of the spheres of production, circulation and consumption used when working out the indicators of the final output produced and utilized. As seen from the preliminary analysis of the specific features of the food industry in the entire economic system, in contrast to other spheres it is more closely connected with the territorial bounds of the market, and its reproduction process has a regional character. Therefore, when measuring the final output of the sector, the influence of the interregional and external connections is taken into account. The indirect indicators describing the produced/utilized output ratio, like self-sufficiency, specialization and interrayon marketability rate, are also employed.

Analysis of the factors of growth of final results in the process of transition to the market economy is used to construct a model of social and economic development and reinforcement of the firms' production and financial operations, providing among other for the development of the credit-financial mechanism, ordering of the money circulation, improvement of the anti-monopoly legislation, formation of the market infrastructure and a network of competing enterprises of various ownership forms.

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