Russian Agri-Food Economy: Today and Tomorrow Eugenia Serova Analytical Centre for Agri-Food Economics Moscow

 Major results of the agrarian reforms in the 1990s  dynamics  farms structure  land tenure  competitiveness  agrarian policy  Prospective and problems  policy, WTO  rural development  R&D

Dynamics Growth Rate of GAO

Dynamics Growth Rate in Food Industry

Dynamics Agri-Food Trade

Farms structure Land use shares by type of farms, %

Farms structure GAO shares by type of farms, %

Farms structure Volume index of agricultural production, 1990=100% Share in GAO (nominal prices), %

Farms structure Farm Production Concentration

Farms structure Frequency of cost production of grain in Rostov area, RUR/t

Farms structure Agroholdings in (survey of IKAR) Number of agroholdings133 Land per agroholding, ‘000 ha56.4 Number of farms per agroholding9 Land per farm, ‘000 ha6.6 Sales per agroholding, USD mln.~20 Sales per farm, USD mln.~2 Sales per ha, USD~400

Farms structure Distribution of households by gross ag. output, one rayon case

Land tenure Property titles for agricultural lands and farmlands, 2001

Land tenure Property titles for farmlands, 2001 (survey results) Farm enterprisesFamily farmers Households Rent61573 Own Other titles314 Total100

Competitiveness

Competitiveness

Competitiveness Production cost distribution, mode

Competitiveness Agri-food exports

Competitiveness Grain Exports

Policy Producer Support Estimates, %

Policy Import Tariff, AVE % TRQ: beef and pork Volume quota: poultry Variable import duty: sugar

Policy Import Tariff Structure USAEU-15JapanBrazilMexicoKenyaIndiaRussiaMean Median Min Max Std. deviation # of tariff lines

Policy Ag. Budget Structure

Policy Ag. Budget Dynamic, RUR

Policy Green Box Meqasures

Prospective and problems  WTO Accession  Rural Development  Research  Human Capital