Analysis of the state and prospects for the development of organic crop production in Russia

The paper is devoted to the study of the features and factors of location of producers of organic crop production on the territory of the Russian Federation. The authors studied the current state of organic agriculture in Russia, the availability of land and other types of resources for the development of this area in the agricultural sector; groups of regions were identified according to the degree of concentration of organic producers; a system of factors influencing the development of organic agriculture was determined, including socio-economic, environmental and climatic conditions; their differentiation by regions of Russia is established. The initial information for the study was the data published by the official statistical organizations, the National Organic Union, in the form of time series and categorical data. The methods used for statistical groupings, analytical alignment of dynamic series, correlation and regression analysis, etc., made it possible to establish the directions for the development of organic crop production in Russia, taking into account the existing economic and natural conditions.