Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:Uzun Vasily
Author-Name-First: Vasily 
Author-Name-Last:Uzun 
Author-Workplace-Name: RANEPA 
Author-Name:Shagaida Natalia
Author-Name-First: Natalia 
Author-Name-Last:Shagaida 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Author-Name:Gataulina Ekaterina
Author-Name-First: Ekaterina 
Author-Name-Last:Gataulina 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Author-Name:Yanbykh Renata
Author-Name-First: Renata 
Author-Name-Last:Yanbykh 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Title: Growth factors in the agriculture of Russia
Abstract: In 2017, the harvest of cereals, including wheat, Russia’s top agricultural export commodity, hit its record high. This happened mostly due to a significant rise in wheat harvest against the three previous years (Tables 34, 35). At the same time, the record-high harvest caused problems with the transportation of grain from the regions of the Siberian Federal District. Agricultural producers also note a decline in the profitability of agricultural production (on the average, by 8.4 percent, to 12-14 percent[1]) due to the accelerated growth in the prices of inputs by comparison with that of the sales price of grain, which lagged behind because of the record-high harvest.   
Classification-JEL: Q13, Q14, Q15, Q16, Q17, Q18
Keywords:  Russian economy, agricultural production
Creation-Date: 2018
Revision-Date:2018
Length: 14 pages
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2018-308.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2018
Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2018-308