Attracting investment in small businesses: a model for assessing the competitiveness of an entity

In the modern agribusiness socio-economic conditions development and implementation of measures for the state support of small businesses, there is a need to justify the subject - candidate-participant of state programs. These areas of support for farm sector entities have been in operation for more than eight years and currently require changes to the requirements of participants. Thus, the article offers practical directions for attracting investment in the development of the farm sector. Methods of economic-mathematical and statistical analysis, system and comparative-analytical methods are used for the objective presentation of the research data. This made it possible to assess the dynamics of the federal and regional budget allocation of the subsidized funds for the state support to farmers and rural cooperatives in Russia and to conduct an economic analysis of the production and economic activities of the peasant farm economy region. The development trends made it possible to form cluster characteristics of an agribusiness entity based on groups of certain criteria and performance indicators. The result of cluster analysis showed that inter-factor relationships have a weak interaction, a direct relationship is established between the variable feature and the effective factors. Based on the study, the author proposed measures for the selection of peasant farm economy to the provision of state support, taking into the account the assessment of their competitiveness in the market of agricultural products, and a model of clustering of small businesses to attract investment in agribusiness entities has been developed. The model for selecting peasant farm economy for the state support includes five factors, the main of which - state support for 100 hectares of the agricultural land - will be the definition of the cluster group. Systematic measures for implementing the proposed model of providing state support to small businesses in the agro-industrial complex are also disclosed.