Ekaterina Lozotska, bachelor’s degree student

Mykhailo Lulko, senior lector

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Economics of agriculture

Economics of Agriculture - the science that studies the development of the productive forces, economic relations, performance features and expression of economic laws in agriculture, and the mechanism and consequences of resource potential in the agricultural sector.

An important objective of agricultural economics as a science is to analyze the use of land, materials, labor, financial resources, and finding ways for increasing agricultural production and solve the food problem. the science that studies the development of the productive forces, economic relations, performance features and expression of economic laws in agriculture, and the mechanism and consequences of resource potential in the agricultural sector.

An important objective of agricultural

Agricultural production is composed of two major branches - crops and livestock. Accordingly, there is economy crop and livestock economy and their constituents economy grain farming, vegetable growing, pig, cattle, poultry and others. In the economy of the area, understand its physical infrastructure, resource capacity, efficiency and other parameters that characterize the development of the economy and its features in the sector. As agriculture as an industry is a combination of different forms of economy (collective and state farms, peasant (farm), their associations), each of which has its own characteristics that distinguish the economy of the collective farm, state farm, peasant (farm) and so on.

Agricultural production is composed of two major branches:

o                  crops

o                  livestock

Improving the efficiency of agriculture is a crucial prerequisite for accelerated development of agriculture and further growth performance of the economy.

The economic efficiency of agricultural production can be studied at different levels. Therefore, allocate the cost-effectiveness: national economic, agriculture and industries agriculture, collective, state and inter-farm enterprises and unification, as well as their farm units, production of certain crops, products, operation, reclamation, chemicals, agro-technical measures ; manufacturing application of science and best practices.

Therefore, allocate the cost-effectiveness:

o                  national economic,

o                   agriculture and industries agriculture,

o                   collective,

o                  state and inter-farm enterprises and unification,

o                  as well as their farm units,

o                  production of certain crops,

o                  products,

o                  operation,

o                   reclamation,

o                  chemicals,

o                  agro-technical measures ;

o                  Manufacturing application of science and best practices.

The role of agriculture in the economy of the country or region shows the structure and level of development. As an indicator of the role of agriculture in the economy using the share of employment in agriculture economically active population and the share of agriculture in GDP. These figures are quite high in most developing countries, where the sector employs more than half of EAP (economically active population). Agriculture in these countries is on the development of extensive, ie increased production achieved expansion of acreage, increased cattle, the increase in the number of employed in agriculture. In countries whose economies are of the farm, the poor performance of mechanization, chemicals, irrigation, etc...

 

The highest level reached agriculture-developed countries in Europe and North America, entered the post-industrial stage. In agriculture, it employs only 2.6% EAP. In these countries the "green revolution" took place in the middle of the twentieth century, agriculture is characterized by the group of science-based organization, increasing productivity, the new techniques of agricultural machinery, pesticides and fertilizers, the use of genetic engineering and biotechnology, robotics and electronics that develops in an intensive way.

These progressive changes occur in countries that are of the industrial, but the level of intensification in them is much lower and the share of employment in agriculture is higher than in post-industrial.

In the developed countries, there is a crisis of overproduction of food, and agricultural contrary, one of the most critical problems is the food problem (the problem of malnutrition and hunger). 

The role of agriculture in the economy of the country or region shows the structure and level of development.

The object of the study are: land - the main means of production, through the rational use of land assets, their classification; material and technical base of agriculture; technological advances; fixed assets and working capital; work and its performance and others.

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