Methodological recommendations for assessment of resource potential efficiency of grain producers

The purpose of the authors' study is to substantiate methodological recommendations for assessing the efficiency of the resource potential of grain producers. To achieve this goal, the analytical hierarchy method was used, which made it possible to determine the coefficients in the equation, statistical groupings to determine the gradation of the indicator. The materials for the study were data from agricultural organizations of the Nizhny Novgorod region on the sown area, the availability of fixed assets at the beginning of the year and the average annual number of workers in grain production. Testing of the received methodological recommendations was carried out according to the data of agricultural organizations of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the context of agroclimatic regions (North-East (I); Central Left-Bank (II); River soil protection (III); Suburban (IV); Central Right-Bank (V); Southwest (VI); Southeast (VII)). As a result of testing, the authors found that in the Nizhny Novgorod region 38 agricultural organizations with a low level of efficiency of resource potential, 175 with an average, 127 with a high. A flowchart was also formed to use methodological recommendations to assess the efficiency of using resource potential in grain production. Methodological recommendations for assessing the effectiveness of resource potential in grain production include the following stages: selection of factors; Creating a hierarchy of factor selection tasks a pairwise comparison of the effects of agroclimatic areas on grain production; pairwise comparison of the degree of influence of factors in agroclimatic areas on grain production; distribution of priority among factors; input of formula weight coefficients; distribution of grain producers by level of resource potential utilization efficiency and analysis of results.