Import Substitution Potential of the Agricultural Complex of the South of Russia

Abstract

Under the modern conditions, the problems of the support of the food security become more and more crucial for the Russian authorities. This situation explains the attention paid to the import replacement in the agriculture. The import replacing potential is understood by the authors as a system of quantitative and qualitative characteristics allowing implementing the competitive import replacing policy corresponding to the strategic goals of the regional development. The main constituents of the import replacing potential are: resources, environment, organizational and managerial efforts and results. The criteria of the rationality of the import replacing potential use of an industry is the conformity of the obtained results of the import replacement to the goals set in the strategic development of a region. The import replacing potential of an industry is determined not only by a complex of the opportunities for the import replacement projects but also by the relevant character of the obtained results within the strategic goals of the regional development. On the basis of these methodological positions the instruments of the problem oriented assessment of the import replacing potential of the agricultural complex was developed and its approval was made using the data from the regions of the South of Russia. The results of the analysis allowed finding growth contributing factors and the conditions hindering the modernization of the agricultural complex of the South of Russia from the point of view of the tasks of the import replacement under the condition of the permanent character of foreign economic sanctions.