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Implementing International Experience in Promoting Agricultural Products to Foreign Markets: The Russian Export Strategy

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Almost all countries in the world actively regulate both import and export of agricultural products, however this process is very conflictгфд because of acute contradictions on the market. They are associated with the changing conditions of production, increase of attention of the world community to the food securitysituation, change of the used resources efficiency level, competition enhancement.

Both internal and external components of agricultural producers support are important for Russia. That means the regulation should be aimed at meeting the needs of the domesticmarket and at increasing competitiveness of Russian products abroad. The development of the Russian export strategy for agricultural products is currently very important. This problem is closely related to the general subject of the agricultural productiondevelopment, but it has an explicit specific character. Inthiscontextexperienceofforeigncountriesisinteresting.

Almost all tools of export regulation existing in the world practice are used in the foreign practice of export regulation of agricultural raw materials and food. Stimulation measures prevail in regards to the coverage of commodity items, number of episodes involving the use of agricultural export regulationmeasures, effectiveness of impact to the national agricultural sector.

Holistic strategies of agricultural export development are not a widespread phenomenon abroad at the present stage of the world economy development. Their existence is typical for countries with a high level of food self-sufficiency. Special programs where export component is a harmonically built-in element are now more widely spread.

Export development programs of the developed countries include a range of measures to maintain the target income level of producers and to maintain procurement and consumer prices.
Export policy of the developing countries has a subordinated importance and is considered as one of the levels to develop national agriculture through the use of advantages of international division of labor.

Key words: export strategy, agro-food policy, agricultural market regulation

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DOI 10.24833/2071-8160-2017-1-52-212-226 (Read the article in PDF)


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