Trends and problems in the functioning of the Vologda oblast agricultural sector in the estimates of agricultural organizations heads

The analysis of agricultural sector functioning in the Vologda Oblast over the past 10 years has shown that, despite current economic and political conditions of management, reduction of the resource base, a sufficiently high level of deterioration of the material and technical base, a lack of qualified personnel, an insufficient level of budgetary support for agriculture and difficult economic conditions in the Northern latitudes in general, production has been recently intensified. However, we should note a number of acute unresolved problems, such as a lack of budget support for agricultural producers (78% of the respondents), greater disparity of prices for agricultural products (76%), a current economic and political situation in Russia as a whole (62%), a critical state of the material and technical base (48%), etc. On the basis of official statistics it is possible to identify existing trends and problems in the industry development, but it is impossible to make an objective and rapid assessment of qualitative changes and certain processes in the current dynamic environment with the help of statistical accounting...