Personnel policy in agriculture as the key to the improvement of the industry human resources reproduction

Implementation of the Federal Target Program "Sustainable Development of Rural Areas 2014-2017 and for the Period up to 2020", the Strategy for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas until 2030 provides for the acceleration of social development of the countryside, diversification of the rural economy, and increase in the supply of high-tech and high-income jobs in the agricultural sector of the economy. At the same time, the crisis phenomena in the rural areas have not yet been overcome: the demographic situation is deteriorating, social infrastructure is being destroyed, the level and quality of life of the rural residents are decreasing, and there is an unreasonably low level of wages in agriculture. Thus, the level of wages of the agricultural workers at the end of 2019 amounted to 66.3% of the level of the average wage in the country, the number of educational institutions in the rural areas has decreased by 2 times over the past 20 years, the output of skilled workers and employees in the agriculture has decreased by 6 times. All this leads to personnel problems in the industry. The authors prove that an important condition for the effective development of the agrarian sector of the Russian economy, among other things, is to enhance prestige of the agricultural labor. In these conditions, the problem of conducting an adequate unified state policy in relation to both agricultural production in general and the development of the rural areas - in particular, an important component of which is the system of formation and regulation of the reproduction of the personnel potential of the agricultural sector of the economy - becomes especially urgent. Based on the analysis of the features of personnel policy in the agrarian sector of the economy, the authors have identified priority areas for improving personnel in agriculture.