Tractor fleet of the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation

Abstract

In the first issue of the journal «Agricultural Science Euro-North- East" of 2021, there was published the article "Who decides which tractors an agricultural producer needs?" revealing the situation in the domestic tractor industry. After 4 years, there was an urgent need to return to this topic. One of the estimation indicators characterizing the level of development of the country's agricultural sector is the energy ratio, which takes into account the amount of energy per certain area of agricultural land. This indicator characterizes the ratio of the total capacity of the fleet, of tractors, self-propelled combines, electric motors available on the farm to the arable land area of the farm. The energy-to-weight indicator is usually used in the macro-assessment of the level of mechanization of regions and countries. In the proposed material, an attempt is made to assess the energy capacity of the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation specifically for tractor power, taking into account the purpose of the tractor. Currently, the Russian agricultural complex is experiencing an acute shortage in tractor energy. This is especially true for universal row tractors. This is explained by a number of reasons, the main one of which is certainly the policy of the federal agency responsible for this area. The purpose of this article is to show the real state of affairs in the tractor fleet of the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation as a whole, and in the federal districts in particular, and based on the data obtained to predict the prospects for further development of the agroindustrial complex of the country. The research materials included speeches by senior officials of political and government structures, representatives of science and industrial production, and official data from the Federal State Statistics Service.