FORMATION OF THE INDEX OF DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPLY AND MARKETING CONSUMER COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE OF THE URAL FEDERAL DISTRICT
The article presents the results of supplysales consumer cooperation development in agriculture of the Ural Federal District. The main results are based on the dynamic study members of supply and marketing cooperatives, their stock-building ratio, the total amount of external borrowing, the cost of shipped products of their own production, payments for agricultural products sold under commission contracts and sales proceeds from noncore activities. For a comprehensive assessment of the development trend of supply and marketing agricultural consumer cooperation the eponymous index is proposed, which is based on the efficiency ratio indexes of core activities with the growth of the gross regional product. At the same time, the efficiency indexes of the main types of activity assume the ratio of the average annual growth factors for the value of the shipped products of the own production, payments for agricultural products sold under the commission contracts and sales proceeds from a non-core activity with an average annual growth rate of external borrowing total amount. The product value of the above indices should be greater than the average annual growth index of the gross regional product. The obtained results made it possible to reveal the features of supply and marketing cooperatives development in the regions of the Ural Federal District and, consequently, to determine the vectors of their development in the future.