The solution of food security threat in Russia on federal and regional levels of government

The article is devoted to one of the most important aspects of increasing the national food security in Russia - the government measures of boosting an agriculture sector. The article deals with the current peculiarities of food security and the main problems of agriculture in Russian Federation. The development of agriculture and vegetables’ growing were analyzed during 1990-2012 and a few regional leaders of vegetables’ growing were also determined. The authors made estimations of the state measures related to the agricultural development on federal and regional levels of government and the comparison with the successful experience of vegetables’ growing. The continuing threat of the food security not unsuccessfully is solved by the federal and regional levels of governments` measures mainly using a software approach in Russian Federation. Along with Russian regions actively use direct and indirect effects` methods: the backing of industry participants, preferential lending terms, the introduction of insurance, new technologies and the updating material and technical base. The most effective instruments of regulation were also indicated.

food security, food import, agriculture, the development of vegetable growing, Russian regions, federal and regional measures of agricultural development, an effectiveness of governments’ measures of vegetable growing