Imperfection of the Contractual Relations in the Regional Agrarian Sector

Abstract

The article discovers problems of imperfection and an inefficiency of the contractual relations in agrarian sector of Russian regions, which undermine the bases of regional food security. Moreover, in the conditions of sanctions and new economic and political threats agrarian complex development has the biggest priority among economic tasks Russia’s facing. Finally, the level of food security is determined by the peculiarities of subjects’ behavior in agrarian sector. As for these subjects we mean farmers, manufacturers, merchandisers, consumers and the government. In this article we introduce the evaluation technique of regional food security level. As for two key conditions of food security we consider, first of all, price affordability of key food products and, the second, sufficiency of its consumption. Under developed technique we analysed the food security’ condition in Chelyabinsk Region (Russia). In the end of the article we develop a number of the models showing the roots of imperfection of the contractual relations in agrarian sector.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s2p615