Mitrofanova I.V., Nozhkina N.A. Agriculture of modern Ukraine: trends, progress, risks, prospects

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Leading Scientific Researcher, Institute of the Social, Economic and Humanitarian Researches Southern Scientific Center of RAS, Prosp. Chekhova, 41, 344006 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; Professor, Department of the Economic theory, International and Regional Economics, Volgograd State University
mitrofanova@volsu.ru
Prosp. Universitetsky, 100, 400062, Volgograd, Russian Federation

Natalya Anatolyevna Nozhkina
Senior teacher, Department of Economy and Management, Moscow regional humanitarian institute
iup_podolsk@mail.ru
Komsomolskaya St., 1, 142100 Podolsk, Moscow region, Russian Federation

Abstract. Despite certain achievements in agriculture of Ukraine in 2007–2013, by the beginning of 2014 the collected structural, interindustry disproportions, unbalance of financial and credit system, discrepancy of the developed administrative structures to requirements of economy, and, as a result, acute shortage of goods of production and non-productive appointment, deficit energy carriers have negatively affected its development. But agriculture in 2015 became the main driver of the economy of Ukraine, otherwise a much deeper fall could be observed. The Ukraine delivers agrarian production to 190 countries of the world that reduces risks in the conditions of the restrictions for delivery. However the volume of export of agrarian production to Russia in 2015 has made only 2 %. One of the challenges for the Ukrainian farmers is the lack of financing, and the main problem of agriculture of the modern Ukraine remains its insufficient recapitalization. The ministry of the agrarian policy of Ukraine in 2015 conducted work on the simplification and removal of permission procedures and documents. In the nearest plans it is the privatization of 250 state companies of the agrarian and industrial complex and this process has already started. In the article it is emphasized that today the policy of the countries of Europe and the West in respect of the Ukraine is extremely pragmatic and is focused on obtaining the maximum of benefit from the mandated territory. Now in the Ukraine there is an active repartition of the state property, and it is not the best time for the liberalization of the land market. The removal of the moratorium on the sale of land will lead to its mass selling for nothing. The authors have investigated the potential of the revival of the agriculture in the Southeast of the Ukraine. The success already achieved is shown. It is emphasized that the deepening of economic integration of Russia, especially in southern regions and Donbass is not just the implementation of investment projects, it is a kind of response to the blockade of the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics organized by the Ukrainian authorities.

Key words: agriculture, agrarian and industrial complex, Ukraine, Donbass, risks, export, import, potential, capitalization, deregulation, moratorium, integration.

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