The role of small farms of the orel region in the production of agricultural products

The contribution of small farms in food security provision of the region was defined in the article. The tendency and dynamics of production of the main types of agricultural products and the productivity of animals in the personal subsidiary and peasant (farmer) farms of the region was established. The authors found that the problem of the efficiency is becoming more important due to the increase in their share in the total output of the main types of agricultural products. The society is interested in growth of crop yields and livestock productivity, on the basis of lower labour and material inputs. In the households over the past six years, on average 24.7 thousand tons of grain, 330 thousand tons of potatoes, 70.7 thousand tons of vegetables, 16.1 thousand tons of fruits and berries were grown; 16.5 thousand tons of livestock and birds were raised for slaughter; 67.7 thousand tons of milk, 131.9 million eggs, 49 tons of wool, 1008.8 tons of honey were produced. The level of the development of small farms largely depends on the economic condition of large agricultural enterprises and agro-industrial complex of the region. Modern sufficiently high ratio of the personal farm in the cost of the gross output of agriculture is a real expression of this regularity. The study of problems related to the formation and development of personal subsidiary farms of the population is relevant in this regard. The productive potential expresses objective opportunities for the production and sale of products and incomes with the available resources and their rational use. The overall assessment involves the use of a wide system of indicators characterizing the degree of achievement of national economic goals: providing the population with food at affordable prices, the competitiveness of products, its profitability, ensuring expanded reproduction, the use of resources, capital stocks, labour power.