FORMATION OF PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT
IN THE REGIONAL AGRICULTURAL SECTOR 

Yanina Tat'yana Fedorovna, Candidate of economic sciences, associate professor, head of the research department, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), pspu-grants@mail.ru
Kil'dyushkina Irina Gennad'evna, Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, leading researcher, department of modern regional development, Research Institute of Humanities under the government the Republic of Mordovia (3 Lva Tolstogo street, Saransk, the Republic of Mordovia, Russia), guniign@list.ru, institute@niign.ru

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Background. Positioning the economy in tough market conditions has deepened a number of problems that led to the necessity for adaptation and operation of industrial enterprises of the agricultural and industrial sector in the environment of increasing competition. The practice of cooperation in the use of industrial equipment, machinery, new technologies and facilities for industrial use through a special form of entrepreneurial activity in the form of leasing operations has become an integral part of the developed countries’ economies, but has not received sufficient development in Russia. The aim of this study was to analyze the directions economic efficiency improvement of the agricultural sector of the region at the present stage and offer the tools to improve the level of application of the machine and tractor fleet in conditions of the existing technologies of cultivation and harvesting of crops in a region.
Materials and methods. The research was based on the theoretical and methodological approaches, developed by the economic science, scientific principles and concepts presented in the works by Russian and foreign scholars on the subject. For the analysis and systematization of the methods the authors applied comparative materials, the economic and statistical analysis, structural, functional and systemic approaches, methods of synthesis and peer review.
Results. The study identified the problems of efficiency improvement of the agricultural production, the estimation and analysis of its condition, determined deficiencies and development of reserves. Intensification is inextricably linked with the elimination and reduction of losses in production and reproduction of social products. For the modern period, the development of our economy is characterized by the gap between the growth rates of resource production and the growth of its final results. Therefore, first of all, the proposed tools for improving the level of application of the machine and tractor fleet in conditions of the existing technologies of cultivation and harvesting of crops in a region.
Conclusions. Rational planning of fuel supply in agricultural organizations can reduce costs for storage by 68–70 %. The annual amount of the economic effect at the regional level could reach about 80 million rubles. If we take into account also the modern contractual relations between agricultural enterprises and the suppliers, the amount of economic impact is even greater. 

industrial and technological activity, leasing transactions, property relations, exploitation of the machine and tractor fleet, leasing services market, management system of lubricants delivery.

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