Greening of the agricultural sector as a condition for sustainable development of the Russian economy

Abstract

Sustainable development of mankind, which consists in meeting the needs of the present day without undermining the possibilities of future generations, enshrined in the UN program documents, is becoming a necessary condition for the survival of civilization. The growing scale of global environmental problems makes it vitally important to find solutions to combine global economic growth and sustainable development of mankind with the preservation of the environment. Today, the issues of energy and resource efficiency of production are especially relevant, particularly in the agricultural sector, which environment burden has increased. In conditions of high global competition and aggravated issues of the world ecology, the country faces the task of modernizing its economy. The new national development goals of Russia directly resonate with the sustainable development goals defined by the UN and are reflected in the general policy of resource use and environmental protection. However, additional steps are needed to maintain positions in world trade. The paper formulates the prerequisites and solutions for the greening of agricultural production and identifies the leaders of the process, as well as the segment of producers, for which greening measures are factors of survival. Indicators of environmental efficiency, the use of which will make it possible to make greening measures the engine of the country's economic agricultural production, as well as goals and solutions for the greening of agricultural production are proposed.