STATE POLICY PRIORITIES IN DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND REGULATION OF MARKETS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, RAW MATERIALS AND FOOD IN RUSSIA AND THE ALTAI REGION
Since 2008 a five-year State Program of Agriculture Development and Regulation of the Markets of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials and Food for the Period of 2008-2012 covering the whole spectrum of the directions of agro-industrial complex development, food security of the country and sustainable development of rural areas, and having a status of a national priority project has been implemented. The State Program is the main instrument of agricultural policy and determines the priorities, objectives and activities of agriculture development for the medium-term five-year period. To implement the Federal Law “On the Development of Agriculture” in 2012, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the State Program of Development of Agriculture and Regulation of Markets of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials and Food for the period of 2013-2020. Proceeding from the problems facing the agro-industrial complex for the period up to 2020, the priorities of the Program implementation are as following: the orientation of the whole system of the agro-industrial complex management to the acceleration of its modernization and innovation development, creation of the conditions for the increase of financial stability of agricultural producers and social development of rural territories, the increase of the roles and the financial capabilities of the Russian Federation entities, improving the accessibility and quality of the provided public services, ensuring the performance of functions of the control and supervision in the sphere of veterinary service, circulation of medicines for veterinary use, quarantine and plant protection, seed production, ensuring soil fertility, land relations, etc.