Strategic parameters for the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the agricultural sector

The article contains proposals for the development of state regulation of the functioning of small and medium-sized businesses in the most problematic and risky sector of the economy - the agricultural one. The necessity of developing a system of concession agreements with the aim of leveling the specific problems of small and medium-sized agricultural businesses has been substantiated. The directions of public-private partnership (logistics centers for storage and processing of agricultural products, etc.) are proposed. The authors present a methodology for calculating the cost of a tax patent for the potential basic yield of 1 hectare of agricultural land used by households in order to generate regular income, contributing to the transformation of such households into the category of small businesses. Three strategic scenarios for the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the Lipetsk region have been developed: baseline - maintaining the existing measures of state regulation and the amount of financial support provided for by the Strategy for the Development of the Region until 2024; optimistic, providing for the development of small and medium-sized agricultural businesses with the activation of public-private partnership in the form of concession agreements; target, based on the parameters of an optimistic scenario with the introduction of a tax patenting system on the territory of the region of the potential basic profitability of 1 hectare of land. When determining the strategic parameters for the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the agricultural sector in the Lipetsk region until 2024, the negative trends in the country's economy due to the coronavirus pandemic were taken into account. We have proved that the implementation of the proposed measures to improve the system of state regulation of the functioning of small and medium-sized businesses in the agricultural sector will have a positive effect on the dynamics of the development of this sector of the economy in the region.