Innovations as a Factor of Agriculture Development in Russia

The rate of change in the global universe has strengthened the role of innovations in the economic development of enterprises, industries, and states. Today, agriculture is one of the Russian economy drivers, and it has sustainable production growth and strong positions at the world food market. Russia intends to develop export supplies of agricultural products in order to increase contribution to solving the world food problem. The solution of this task is impossible without increasing an innovative activity of agricultural producers. The author identified the factors that contribute to the current development of Russian agriculture and assessed the role of innovations in the process of economic growth in the industry. The methods of theoretical and economic and statistical analysis were used to study special aspects of Russian agriculture and world and national trends in the innovative development. The results allowed to conclude that the agricultural production growth in Russia was provided by an integrated influence of extensive and intensive factors of the economic development, and the contribution of innovations to this process was very small. The analysis of current features of innovation processes in agribusiness allowed the author to work out measures to increase an innovative activity of agricultural producers.