Received on September 13, 2020
Since 2020, a new system of providing agricultural subsidies to the regions has been operating in a pilot mode. Now each subject can apply for the compensating and stimulating part of state support. The purpose of the first one is to maintain the already achieved results in the sector, the second one is to continue point development of production [2, 5]. Priority will be given to regions that have failed to resolve the issue of food security, as well as those that have implemented foreground sectors of the agro-industrial complex. The main goal of the implemented changes is the development of promising agricultural regions that simultaneously have problems in socio-economic development, support for small forms of management and certain areas of production (for example, soybeans, rapeseed, product processing). It is tentatively assumed that, first, the ratio of the compensating and stimulating parts of subsidies will be at the level of 50/50, then 30/70, and in the future only the stimulating part of the single subsidy will remain.
At the same time, a limiting coefficient was established for the region's share in the total volume of subsidies for the compensating part (5%), and for the incentive part (40%). This can lead to a situation where several regions can receive the overwhelming majority of "incentive" subsidies. Previous studies have shown that 15 Russian regions during the observation period from 2006 to 2018 accounted for 50% of all provided subsidies [8].
Despite the fact that the risk of uneven distribution of subsidies remains, including due to the lack of an accurate scheme for determining priority projects and allocating funds, such changes in the mechanism for granting subsidies will lead to a redistribution of state support and the emergence of new opportunities for promising agricultural regions that will have the opportunity to implement their agricultural projects, normalize reproduction [3] and develop certain areas specific to them.