Authors:
B. A. VORONIN, doctor of jurisprudence, professor, head of the department,
E. M. KOT, candidate of economic sciences, head of the department,
Ya. V. VORONINA, senior lecturer,
N. B. FATEEVA, senior lecturer,
URAL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY (42 K. Liebknechta Str., 620075, Ekaterinburg)
A. V. MALANICHEVA, candidate of economic Sciences, head of development department of farms, personal subsidiary farms of citizens and consumer cooperation,
MINISTRY OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND FOOD OF SVERDLOVSK REGION (101 Malysheva Str., 620004, Ekaterinburg)
Abstract. Agricultural consumer cooperation as legal form of managing in agrarian sector of economy after the long period of stagnation receives attention from public authorities today. At the same time, while development of agricultural consumer cooperation happens in subjects of the Russian Federation not evenly and isn't economically steady. The purpose of this research is the analysis of the state support of development of agricultural consumer cooperatives in the Russian Federation and its subjects, in particular, in the Sverdlovsk region. During the research it is revealed that not all types of agricultural consumer cooperatives defined in the law “On Agricultural Cooperation” from December 8th of 1995 equally successfully function in the agrarian sphere. Despite regularly held Congresses of rural cooperatives, and also Congresses of Association of peasant farms and agri-cultural cooperatives of Russia, noticeable activization of agricultural consumer cooperation doesn't occur. In total these factors don't provide real improvement of indicators of effective activity of small farms in the agrarian sphere, labor employment or increase the welfare of villagers snd quality of life in rural settlements.
Keywords: Russia, agricultural consumer cooperatives, congresses of rural cooperatives, types of agricultural consumer cooperatives, social and economic problems of agricultural consumer cooperation.
