Assessment of Problems and Prospects of Increasing the Level and Efficiency of Social Responsibility of Agricultural Enterprises

Abstract

The subject of the study is the theoretical and practical aspects of the implementation and evaluation of social responsibility of agrarian enterprises. The purpose of the work is to identify, assess and analyze the level and effectiveness of social responsibility of agrarian enterprises and justify the directions, sources, means of increasing its volumes and distribution. Methodological bases of the article are general scientific, and special methods of scientific knowledge. Methods used: dialectical, monographic, historical, system and structural analysis and synthesis, problem and program-target approaches, statistical and economic, economic and mathematical, surveys. The article reveals features of social responsibility of domestic agrarian enterprises in terms of content, structure and dynamics. An assessment and analysis of its level, causes and risks of mass distribution have been made. Proved suggestions on its growth and efficiency increase. At the same time, we are talking not only about large, but also small and medium-sized agribusiness enterprises. For the first time, it was determined that large agribusiness should support small businesses in the context of social responsibility (through commodity lending, guaranteed sales of products, etc.) in order to form a middle class in rural areas and ensure social stability and progress. Conclusions and results of the article can be used in the educational-scientific process of the economic faculties of higher educational institutions. It is expedient to transfer them for practical use to agrarian enterprises, public organizations, rural communities. In the course of the research carried out, significant polarization was found in the effectiveness of development and social responsibility of large and small subjects of agrosphere management, which requires urgent solution to this problem. Indeed, small agricultural formations are understood not only as commodity producers, but they are the basis for the formation of the middle class in the countryside, promote employment and increase the well-being of the population. Therefore, large agribusiness should carry out social responsibility, supporting them, in particular, in the form of commodity lending, sale of finished goods, use of production capacities, development of cooperative and integration processes, and the introduction of innovations.