Authors:
O. D. RUBAEVA, doctor of economics, professor, head of the department,
S. I. LILIMBERG, graduate student,
SOUTH URAL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY (75 Lenina Ave., 454080, Chelyabinsk)
Abstract. The main socio-economic task of agricultural cooperation is to create an organizational and legal system to protect the interests of small and medium-sized agricultural producers in a market economy by creating a self-governing form of self-management on a democratic basis. Putting into operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan of a new law “On Agricultural Cooperatives” and its accompanying documents will have a direct impact on the successful solution of the problem of increasing the effectiveness of cooperative processes in the agro-industrial complex. The purpose of the study is to analyze the main trends in the evolution of Kazakhstan’s legislation and their impact on improving the efficiency of agricultural cooperation. Analytical, comparative-historical and monographic methods were used during the research. In Kazakhstan, agricultural cooperation as a whole has not got adequate development for quite a long period of time. The introduction of changes in the legislation regulating cooperative relations in the agro industrial complex makes it possible to solve such key problems as the impossibility of distributing profits among the participants of cooperation, the inadequacy of state support measures, and the opacity of cooperative activities. Separate provisions of the new legislation – the procedure for the formation and determination of the net income of agricultural cooperatives, the procedure for creating and managing a cooperative – require further refinement in the process of their implementation. The analysis allows us to assert that the new legislative provisions will allow representatives of small and medium-sized forms of management in the agro-industrial complex to function steadily and to improve the efficiency of their activities in the conditions of their joint functioning in agricultural cooperatives. The processes of improving the regulatory and legal regulation of cooperation require reasonable scientific and informational support, which will become the basis for the further effective development of cooperation.
Keywords: agricultural cooperation, agricultural cooperatives, efficiency, legislation, regulation, scientific information database.
