Production of organic food products as a growth factor of stability of agrarian and industrial complex of the south of Russia

The article analyzes modern features of production and consumption of food productsin the world, in Russia, in a number of subjects of the Southern Federal District and in the Volgogradregion. The role of common and organic food products, their export and internal potential as agrowth factor of sustainability growth of the agriculture is determined.The research uses the general provisions of the economic theory reflecting the laws of themarket economy. It also uses the system, institutional approaches, and also it is characterized by acombined use of theories of consumer behaviour, balanced development and regionalistics.The authors specifically emphasize that in the conditions of heterogeneity of saturation ofdemand for various foods a simultaneous existence of groups of the population suffering frommalnutrition and excess weight in order to increase the sustainable development of the agriculture itis necessary to produce both usual and also organic food staff. This implies the introduction ofmeasures of various state supports of producers and consumers, advertisement of the use of ecologicaltechnologies and a healthy way of life.It is shown that the sustainability of the agricultural development provided by the presence ofeffective demand for agricultural production implies the redirection of the volumes of production forexport, supplies into the regions of Russia and also the provision of regional food security. Thisimplies the creation of the conditions for a gradual transfer to a technology intensive regional Foodnetmarket.The authors analyzed the markets of the regions of the Southern federal district (withoutSevastopol and the republic of Crimea) from the point of view of the consumption of agriculturalproducts. The food types for which it is reasonable to transfer to an organic production are defined.It is founded that a transfer to the production of organic food staff will take place first in themost fully completed positions of goods. At the same time the key problem remains the task of thecreation of a favourable institutional, infrastructural and financial environment, providing the productionaccessibility of organic technologies for agrarians and organic products for consumers.