Agricultural products’ quality

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the top-priority value of the quality of agricultural products for modern economic systems and to determine the key problems and to develop the concept of increasing the quality of agricultural products in modern Russia. For that, the methods of regression and correlation analysis are used; the authors determine dependencies between the quality of agricultural products and quantitative and qualitative characteristics of modern economic systems. The indicator of quality of agricultural products is index of agricultural products according to the World Bank. Quantitative indicators include the share of the AIC in the total volume of export according to the International Independent Institute of Agrarian Policy and the share of added value of agriculture in the structures of GDP according to the World Bank. Qualitative indicators are the index of national food security according to the Economist Intelligence Unit and the index of health according to the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Division, and the World Bank. The research objects are the USA, India, Brazil, China, Canada, Indonesia, and Russia. The research is performed on the basis of the 2017 data. The authors come to the conclusion that quality of agricultural products is an important factor of provision of national food security and population’s health. The Russian strategy of development of agriculture and regulation of markets of agricultural products, which focuses on achievement of target indicators of quantitative indicators, inevitable leads to reduction of the quality of agricultural products. In order to achieve simultaneous target values with provision of high quality of agricultural products, a concept is developed – it is aimed at usage of the possibilities of transition to the AIC 4.0.