ISSUES OF ANALYZING THE EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES IN ZHYTOMYR REGION
Authors:   Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Sachovsky Igor 
Published: April 2022

A complex of issues, shown in this article, is actual in many aspects, in particular with considering the following: the efficiency of agricultural enterprises at a particular stage of their development in general, in our opinion, is determined by the degree of maturity of market relations in all spheres of social production; successful solution of the problems of steady growth of production efficiency in agricultural enterprises is possible only if they are considered in the complex of problems of the agro-industrial complex as a whole, at one or another stage of its development; one of the most important prerequisites for the effective functioning of agricultural enterprises is the degree of consideration of the specifics of a region of the country in the development and implementation of policies of state support, the degree of its compliance with today’s realities. The purpose of the article, as already mentioned, is to analyze the main, most important indicators of efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Zhytomyr region, again, the most important, because their activities are determined and manifested in an extremely large number of factors. The most important (or one of the most important?) Is the indicator of profitability of production, both at the regional level and, in detail, at the district (local) level. It should be noted that, in addition, its consideration requires consideration of the level of profitability of certain types of agricultural products, the proportions of their production and, dare we say, the state policy in the field of pricing of agricultural products. The main indicators, of course, that determine the level of profitability of production in agricultural enterprises, in this case – Zhytomyr region, is the amount of their (net) profit and, in a sense, not so much the cost as their structure, in what it was possible visually verify based on the data in table. 3. And since, for some reason, the profitability of production was considered in the most generalized, acceptable form, the structure of production costs in agricultural enterprises of Zhytomyr region is relatively detailed and indicative. It is no coincidence that the proposed work provides data on price indices for products sold by agricultural enterprises in a given period. In our opinion, this gives a more realistic picture of the profitability, in the end, of an agricultural enterprise (taking into account the cost structure, which has already been partially discussed). In conclusion, we consider it appropriate to say separately about some aspects of the above system of conclusions, in particular, on the following of them: “The nature and character of the organization of production processes in modern agricultural enterprises are radically different from those that existed in the collective form of land ownership, radically changed almost all external and internal conditions of their operation”. In-depth consideration here combines two more or less related conclusions. In the first part of it, we would like to emphasize the psychological implication of what has been said. Changing the form of land ownership, in fact, requires a change in the psychology of thinking of its owners, which is also not an easy question. Regarding the preconditions for the effective functioning of modern agricultural enterprises, here, as already mentioned in the introductory part, the problem of state participation in economic processes comes ahead. The state cannot let go of almost all aspects of life, especially in the economy, and in relation to agriculture, especially in the regulation of pricing of basic agricultural products.