AGRICULTURAL CONSUMER COOPERATION IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION OF RURAL ECONOMY

Abstract

Currently, cooperatives in the Republic of Tatarstan cover only less than 2% of collective farms, about 5% of collective farms, less than 1% of household farms. The analysis of regional experience in the development of cooperation in the Republic of Tatarstan showed that the measures taken to develop cooperation in rural areas in the last four years have positive results. The increase of budget support for the last four years allowed to increase the number of operating cooperatives 3,3 times, contributed to the growth of cooperative movement members by 16 times, the growth of monetary gain by 6 times and return of budget support by 1,8 times. At the same time, almost half of the registered cooperatives are not able to establish effective activities. The number of operating cooperatives in municipal districts varies from 0 to 14, which in most cases is connected with the use of administrative resources of local authorities on the external influence of cooperative development on the increase of the number of established cooperatives to the detriment of the implementation of the internal mechanism of cooperative solidarity. In the Republic of Tatarstan there is conducted work on activation of cooperative movement due to the promotion of positive experience of cooperatives and strengthening of measures of state support of small forms of management and cooperative development, the volume of which made 856,2 million rubles in 2021, 905,8 million rubles in 2022. To ensure the effective functioning of agricultural consumer cooperatives it is necessary to provide a cluster format for the organization of agricultural consumer cooperatives on a territorial basis and to transfer production and economic processes to a digital platform, to a digital management system by levels and stages of product promotion with simultaneous training for the use of software developments.