SYSTEM OF INDICATORS FOR ASSESSING THE EFFICIENCY OF GRAIN PRODUCTION AND SALES

Abstract

The article considers the indicators of grain production and sales efficiency assessment, reflecting the quality of relevant business processes management, taking into account the available resource potential and territorial natural and climatic features. Grain is a strategic product for the socio-economic system of Russia, since, firstly, it is widely involved in solving problems of ensuring food security, secondly, it is actively involved in export flows, and thirdly, it serves as a tool for achieving an acceptable level of marginality of agricultural business activities. The analysis is primarily aimed at forming a comprehensive and reliable information base that allows forming reserves for increasing the efficiency of grain production and sales, as well as ensuring an increase in the rationality of consumption of available resource potential within the framework of industry business processes. To assess the efficiency of grain production and sales, the paper proposes a system of criteria that includes four groups of indicators: optimality, self-financing, cost intensity and balance. Each group of criteria corresponds to a relevant set of indicators reflecting certain aspects of the efficiency of business processes related to grain production and sales. The authors' team substantiates the relevance of the assessment and systematizes the indicators of the efficiency of grain production and sales, analyzes the dynamics of the level of self-sufficiency in grain and the marketability of grain production in Russia, examines the features of changes in the price index for grain and leguminous crops, and also performs a comparative analysis with the dynamics of the consumer price index.