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Authors:

A. L. PUSTUYEV, doctor of economics, professor,

O. S. GORBUNOVA, senior teacher,

S. V. PETRYAKOVA, senior teacher,

URAL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY (42 K. Liebknechta Str., 620075, Ekaterinburg)

V. V. KALITSKAYA, candidate of economic sciences, associate professor,

I. M. PERMINOVA, senior teacher,

URAL STATE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY (62 8 Marta Str., 620144, Ekaterinburg)

Abstract.  In this article short justification of the concept “sustainable development” in relation to agrarian sector of economy is given. The priority purposes used in the course of an assessment of the developed programs of social and economic development of agriculture are proved. They include: increase in the standard of living of country people, overcoming food dependence of the country on import deliveries, revival and development of rural territories in a regional priority of the sequence on the basis of motivational attraction of investment resources. It is proved that in the course of achievement of the first purpose it is necessary to be guided by the social and financial standards allowing to define the reasonable need for financial resources, the second – on the optimum institutional environment expressing the known elements of the economic mechanism of management of development of the NPP making impact on the level of stability of functioning of her elements. The known data expressing crisis manifestations in this system are submitted (excess tax burden of agrarian sector, high debt load of agriculture, technical degradation and others). The reasons interfering transition of agriculture to an intensification (exhaustion of lands of agricultural appointment, low volumes of application of fertilizers, dry farming, manifestation of the law of the decreasing fertility of lands) are noted. The opinion of authors concerning objectivity of an assessment of the negative results which have occurred for years of agrarian reform received after the population census in 2016 is stated. Nevertheless, some positive shifts are noted: in agriculture of the majority of regions a slight increase of labor productivity is noted. However fantastic appeals to innovative transformations in agriculture as most important element of intensification, are unreal in the absence of enough skilled workers so far, including also experts of an administrative link of the agrarian organizations.