Landscape entrepreneurship of Makarivo region at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century: a historical heritage

Abstract

Optimizing the use of local resource potential based on the development of entrepreneurship is an important factor in the recovery of the Ukrainian economy. The purpose of the article is a historical and economic analysis of the entrepreneurial activity of Ukrainian landowners, namely the specifics of agro-industrial entrepreneurship of the Makariv Oblast in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. On the basis of a retrospective analysis of the formation of entrepreneurship in Ukraine, the main development trends and specifics of the formation of landlord entrepreneurship are characterized on the example of the Makariv District. It is shown that the entrepreneurship of the post-reformation era occupied an important place in the noble-landlord economy. As a result of the combination of cultivation of agricultural products and their processing, noble-landlord farms turned into agrarian-industrial complexes. Specialization was conditioned by natural and climatic conditions. In the course of the research, it was revealed that the technical processing of agricultural products: sugar, distillery, tobacco, flour mill production has gained a powerful development. It was determined that the existence of a practically closed production cycle was characteristic of entrepreneurial type landlord farms. The landowners of the Makariv region introduced such productions that best corresponded to natural, financial conditions and market demands. Simultaneously with the production of agricultural products, they made investments in distilleries, breweries and mills, sawmills that were part of the estates. Combining the production of agricultural products with their industrial processing provided the owner with stable profits. The entrepreneurial activity of the landowners, focused on the most effective use of local natural resource potential, acquired the character of agrarian and industrial entrepreneurship, which, along with ensuring profits, performed social and economic functions in the development of the Makariv district. The formation of a strategy and specific ways of recovery of regions and transformation of agricultural production affected by Russian aggression should be formed taking into account positive historical experience.