Bugay Yu.A., Khimochka V.S. Trends in the development of the agglomeration center of agriculture-oriented region (case study of the city of Barnaul)
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bugay
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Production Management and Agrobusiness, Altai State Agricultural University
Prosp. Krasnoarmeiskiy, 98, 656049 Barnaul, Russian Federation
Vyacheslav Sergeevich Khimochka
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Regional Economics and Management, Altai State University
Prosp. Lenina, 61, 656049 Barnaul, Russian Federation
Abstract. The research goal is to determine the general and specific factors of the economic development of the agglomeration centers of Russia’s agriculture-oriented regions. The agriculture industry complex of Russia is the leading systemically important and currently export-oriented sphere of the country’s economy that forms the food market, food and economic security, labor and settlement potential of the regions. To a large extent the regional specialization determines the economic development of the central cities of these regions. The system of indicators to determine the key agriculture-oriented regions of Russia is proposed. Agriculture-oriented regions with a developed agricultural sector have been identified; they account for more than 40 % of agricultural production in Russia and their resource potential can ensure a key role in implementing the policy of import substitution of food products and increasing their exports. The following regions are agricultureoriented ones: Altai, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov, and Saratov Regions. The case of the City of Barnaul shows the role of such regions in the development of urban agglomeration centers. The prospects for economic development of the Barnaul agglomeration have been determined. They take into account the competitive advantages of the Altai Region as an agrarian region and the potential for growth of the city’s processing industry, as well as the increase of the food market capacity. Altai krai is the only key region among agricultural regions in the country which is located in its Asian part which makes it possible to identify its important competitive advantage, namely, its proximity to China as the main market for agricutural products.
Key words: agriculture industry complex, agriculture-oriented regions, industry development potential, rating of agrarian regions, agglomeration center of a region, socio-economic indices of region development.
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