Decoupled income support of Russian agricultural producers in the aspect of import substitution: problems and results

Economic sanctions allowed unhindered increase financial support for domestic agriculture, including decoupled support. The article is devoted to the decoupled income support of agricultural producers of the Russian Federation in the aspect of import substitution. The course of its implementation, the existing problems in the provision and the main results are analyzed. The methodological basis of the study consists of methods of induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, historical and logical methods. The analysis showed low performance of decoupled income support in this aspect, which is associated with insufficient funding and conditions of provision. The main problems in the implementation of decoupled income support are: low funding and the need for regional co-financing; failure to provide support to regions with the highest soil fertility and crop profitability; the procedure for distributing support funds does not take into account the technological level of agricultural production and the technical potential of the agricultural enterprise; stimulation of the extensive type of agricultural production. Measures are proposed to increase the effectiveness of decoupled income support in order to ensure its effectiveness and accelerate the achievement of state-provided indicators in the field of import substitution in the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation: 1) a significant increase in the level of funding for decoupled income support; 2) elimination, as a condition for its provision, regional co-financing; 3) a change in the procedure for calculating decoupled income support in terms of eliminating the possibility of denying it to the regions with the highest indicators of soil fertility and profitability in the field of crop production and sales of its products; 4) the use of a differentiated approach in providing decoupled income support; 5) the exclusion of an unjustified increase in the acreage of agricultural crops.