METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TYPIFICATION OF RUSSIAN REGIONS BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY OF THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
The article provides a literary review, systematizes approaches to the allocation of types of agricultural structure of Russian regions, and develops a method for allocating types of Russian regions according to the degree of development of agriculture, the food industry, and the branches of the economy that serve agriculture. This method takes into account the ratio of agribusiness industries, which we have grouped into three areas: I sphere (industries that produce products consumed by the II and III spheres of agriculture; 2 types of economic activity), II sphere (agriculture; 6 types of economic activity), III sphere (industries that process agricultural products or provide various services to them; 3 types of economic activity). Taking into account the coefficient of localization of agricultural production, three groups of regions were identified: agro-industrial, industrial and agricultural, as well as regions for which the agro-industrial complex is not a branch of their specialization. On the example of Russian regions, the developed methodology was tested: the structure of regions was dominated by agroindustrial regions (52.4% of the studied population), 20 and 19 regions were assigned to industrial-agricultural and other territories, respectively. The results obtained are important for authorities at all levels in their formation of agricultural policy, the concept of demographic development, and structural changes in the economy.