On the System of State Support for the Dairy Subcomplex in Russia

The development of the dairy industry is one of the priorities of the state policy in the country’s agriculture due to its high importance associated with the need to provide the population with irreplaceable dairy products of domestic production, solving the problems of food independence, improving the efficiency of labor resources, and improving the social conditions of the rural population. It should be noted that although the State program for the development of agriculture and regulation of the market of agricultural products, raw materials, and food for 2013–2020 and other legal documents brought positive results, they do not fully contribute to the development of the dairy subcomplex and provide the population with milk and dairy products. Therefore, we believe that the sufficiently high importance of state support for the subcomplex, the need for its prolongation, increasing the volume of subsidies, and improving the mechanisms for providing subsidies, also requires the development of new approaches to the management of the subcomplex, concerning the macroeconomic (adoption of federal and regional decisions on the regulation of the industry) and the microeconomic level (decision-making on the strategy and tactics of managing the activities of economic entities), which will be reflected in further studies.