ABSTRACT

Agroholdings have become a major player in Russian agriculture in less than two decades. Nevertheless, there is no legal definition of agroholding as an organisation, and no statistical information on agroholdings as a distinct category is collected. Only informal definitions exist, which regard agroholdings as groupings of agricultural enterprises linked into a single management network. The numerous publications on Russian agroholdings are mostly based on limited or sporadic data. This is the first study that assembles a full list of more than 1,000 agroholdings in Russia and analyses the corresponding data from official sources. The study examines the role of agroholdings in Russian agriculture and estimates some performance measures. We group all agricultural enterprises (corporate farms in their own right) in Russia into agroholding members and independent, non-member farms, and perform a comparative analysis of the two distinct organisational forms that are at the focus of Russian agricultural policy.

摘要

在不到二十年的时间里，农业控股已经成为俄罗斯农业的主要参与者。然而，没有将农业生产作为一个组织的法律定义，也没有收集作为一个独特类别的农业生产的统计信息。只存在非正式的定义，将农业生产经营权视为连接到单一管理网络的农业企业集团。大量关于俄罗斯农业生产的出版物大多基于有限或零星的数据。这是第一项收集俄罗斯 1,000 多个农业生产地的完整清单并分析来自官方来源的相应数据的研究。该研究考察了农业生产在俄罗斯农业中的作用并估计了一些绩效指标。