On regulating the processes of socio-economic development of rural areas: a regional aspect

The Russian Federation ranks first in the world in terms of territory being over 17 million square km. The maximal outstretch of the territory in the longitudinal direction is 4 thousand km; in the latitudinal direction, 9 thousand km. This, undoubtedly, has influenced the nature of the population settling and the difficulty in organizing social services for the population living in small and often scattered and remote settlements. Natural-and climatic conditions for agricultural production are also significantly different. All this complicates finding an optimal balance between the market and state methods of regulating macroeconomic processes, including the ones in the agricultural sector of the economy. Unlike other systems and subsystems of socio-economic development of territories, rural territories as an object of state regulating their development have their own characteristics defined by significant regional differences in natural-and climatic conditions and the nature of the rural population settlement. The article discusses regional features as objects of regulating the processes of socio-economic development of rural areas, priority orientations of this development. The role and importance of rural entrepreneurial ecosystems as one of the main and real mechanisms for increasing income and employment of the rural population has been investigated. By the example of individual factors to increase the agricultural products competitiveness, the need to improve the processes of state regulation is shown, including the one in terms of strengthening collective and personal responsibility for solving complex strategic problems of socio-economic development of rural areas.