The use of work force and level of its payment in the agricultural organizations of the Orel region

Multifunctionality of agriculture in the Russian Federation economy is the following: food production for the population of the country and raw materials for the processing industry; development of international relations based on food exports and imports; improving the quality of life of the population by creating jobs, generating incomes for the population; ensuring size and structure of the nutrition of the population in accordance with the physiological norms of consumption. At the same time, the agrarian sector is the main consumer of the state's material resources: tractors, combines, trucks, mineral fertilizers, fuels and lubricants, and others. It should be noted that agriculture is not only a branch of the economy, it is a huge rural area, where 25% of the population of Russia lives. Here moral foundations of the people, their national identity are formed and preserved. The formation and evaluation of indicators of agricultural development is carried out in the context of categories of farms, where agricultural organizations play a leading role, both in the country as a whole and in the context of individual subjects of the Russian Federation. So, in the Orel region, agricultural enterprises account for 8.5% of the average annual number of employees of organizations in the region. The article studies the role of agricultural organizations in the economy of the Orel region, their need for labor, dynamics, composition and structure of employees of the agricultural organizations, the use of the working time fund. A comparative assessment of the average wages of employees of agricultural organizations with the subsistence minimum, the minimum wage and others is carried out. Analytical conclusions are made and practical recommendations are presented.