EFFICIENCY OF RESOURCE POTENTIAL USAGE: EVALUATION AND DIRECTIONS OF IMPROVEMENT
Increasing the efficiency of resource potential usage is of particular importance, since it allows substantially increasing the level of resource use and the efficiency of the functioning of agricultural production. From this point of view, the study of theoretical, methodological and practical issues of assessing the resource potential, the effectiveness of its use allows us to substantiate the priority directions of the development of the agricultural sector of the economy and is extremely relevant. The research was conducted with the purpose of revealing the level of availability and the degree of efficiency of resource potential using of agricultural organizations in the Ulyanovsk region. To assess the availability of resource potential, the system of indicators was used: financial support, material security, labor supply, state support, cadastral value of agricultural land, humus content. The carried out regression modeling made it possible to identify three clusters of the region’s areas with varying degrees of efficiency in the use of the resource potential. The cluster trajectories of the study areas are analyzed, reflecting the dynamics of their distribution according to the traits under study: the typologies of the regions were analyzed according to statistical data for 2005, 2010, 2015. Based on the analysis, it can be noted that the regions of the Ulyanovsk region are rather heterogeneous according to the available resource potential of the agrarian sector of the economy and its implementation. Analysis of the dynamic characteristics of the resource potential use of the agrarian sector of the economy of the Ulyanovsk region showed that in 17 districts of the region during the analyzed period the cluster numbers did not change, which indicates stability in the current situation with the state and use of the resource potential. The article proposes the classification of agricultural organizations in terms of the level and effectiveness of using the resource potential and recommendations for increasing it for each cluster.