FUNCTIONING OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN WAR CONDITIONS

Abstract

The article considers the peculiarities of the functioning of the agricultural sector during the war and highlights the main risks due to the full-scale war of the Russian Federation in February 2022. These include: general economic, significant logistical and financial losses of some agricultural producers, deterioration of the provision of agricultural enterprises with material and technical means, local food shortages caused by difficulties in supply and/or excessive demand, destruction of infrastructure for production, processing and storage of agricultural products. nutrition, deterioration of the quality of the diet of the population, reduction of production of certain types of agricultural products, transition to an extensive model of agricultural production, increasing the shortage of labor resources in agricultural production. Due to the impossibility of forecasting the course of hostilities in the future, the following vulnerable phenomena for the agricultural sector have been identified: blocking the export of agricultural products by sea, harvesting crops, providing agricultural enterprises with material and technical resources, providing food to the population in occupation and on the border. The main directions of ensuring the stability and adaptability of the agricultural sector to operate in wartime, in particular: maximum use of direct and indirect financial measures aimed at supporting the economic activities of farmers, keeping their employees, preventing bankruptcy, ensuring crop harvesting, ensuring sustainability of food systems of communities, change in the structure of agricultural production, the gradual restoration of technical capabilities for the export of agricultural products and food, the development of a strategy for the development of the agricultural sector.