Features of agricultural specialization management of the economic regions of Russia

The article discusses the main indicators for assessing specialization of the regional economy and possibility of using them to study the specialization of regions in the field of agricultural production. This is due to the fact that the Russian agro-industrial complex has pronounced regional specifics, based on the fact that the regions of the country, as well as economic regions, are located in very different natural, climatic, financial, labor, infrastructural and other economic parameters. All this predetermines the need to use a regional approach to managing the agricultural sector of the national economy. It has been established that the Central Black Earth, North Caucasus, Volga and Kaliningrad economic regions of Russia currently have the coefficient of localization of agricultural production. Thus, these macroregions have a high concentration of agricultural production, which indicates a very high level of general specialization of their economies in agriculture. This circumstance allowed us to conclude that these economic regions have the highest realized agricultural potential. Also, based on the application of the per capita production coefficient, the current specialization of economic regions of Russia in the production of certain types of agricultural products is studied according to data for 2019-2021. Important conclusions are drawn about the effectiveness of the current specialization of economic regions, and also, using the example of the Volga economic region, the effectiveness of regional specialization in the field of wheat production is examined. The use of the existing grid of economic regions in Russia in the process of implementing state agrarian policy will make it possible to manage domestic agricultural production more effectively and carry out strategic management of the specialization of the economic regions of the country and the regions included in them.