The profitability of agriculture and economic growth in the system of national accounts

The importance of the system of national accounts as the main source of information on the state of the economics in general and separate branches and formation on the basis of these data of economic policy of the state is considered. The disadvantages of measuring income and profitability of agriculture in the system of national accounts at the level of the state and in the system of regional accounts at the level of certain regions that is connected with bad observability of sector "household farms" at their considerable specific weight on the branch "agriculture" are opened. The most part of a gross value from agriculture is defined by an expert way due to various adjustments that results in high profitability of the branch. The profitability of agriculture according to macroeconomic statistics is much higher than average in the economy, thus the efficiency of the farms of the population several times exceeds the efficiency of agricultural organizations. The assessment of profitability of agriculture can be defined on the basis of an indicator of macroeconomic profitability which size will be overestimated in view of big specific weight in agriculture of personal subsidiary farms...