FEATURES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN CHERNIHIV REGION
Authors:   Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Sachovsky Igor 
Published: September 2023

Agriculture, without a doubt, can be considered one of the most important sectors of the national economy of Ukraine. Moreover, as indicated in specialized economic literature, "the agricultural sector is becoming the main budget-forming sphere of the Ukrainian economy" [3, p. 5]. This makes the problems of its further dynamic development, ways, and time for their resolution particularly relevant. The article is characterized by the following features. Firstly, it is based on the analysis of purely statistical data on the dynamics of agricultural production in the Chernihiv region, mostly for the period from 2010 to 2020, with their annual specification for the last 5 years. In this regard, it is considered necessary to pay separate attention to the following aspects: A) As far as we know, a feature of the mentioned region is that it has the highest proportion of enterprises in the total volume of agricultural production; if in Ukraine as a whole it is at the level of 64.6%, then in Chernihiv region it is within 82.2%, so choosing the agricultural sector of the economy in the mentioned region as the subject of research was not accidental. It is quite reasonable, perhaps, that with the consideration of the trends that have taken place in the agricultural sector of Ukraine in recent years, the agricultural sector of Chernihiv region is a kind of flagship, which only strengthens the interest in studying its specifics. B) To some extent, an exception is that data on changes in the structure of production of the most important types of agricultural products were considered in an expanded version, for the period from 2000 to 2020. Moreover, their consideration was isolated, with a division into the production of plant and animal sub-sectors separately in each of the main groups of agricultural producers today (including farms). In this regard, a vivid illustration of the changes that have taken place in agriculture in Chernihiv region in the specified period is, in particular, their specification in the structure of meat production by its types (see fig. 1). On the other hand, one of the most important, if not the main, features of the proposed article is the consideration of the dynamics of development of the main groups of goods producers today, such as agricultural enterprises and peasant farms; the dynamics of development of individual farms in this case was not separately considered, although given that in Chernihiv region, farms of this type accounted for approximately 1/10 of the volume of agricultural production, this is one of the highest indicators in Ukraine. The dynamics of agricultural production for the period from 2010 to 2020, as already mentioned, was considered as a whole and in terms of its main components, that is, the mechanics of changes that took place in the production structure during the period were studied. With the above in mind, it is also necessary to separately consider the dynamics of such components of agricultural production as crop production and animal husbandry in each of the main groups of goods producers. In this regard, it remains to add that based on the data presented in tables 2, 3, and 4, it would be possible to significantly expand the range of additional information, in particular, to separately study the specifics of the dynamics of development of the main sub-sectors of agriculture, such as crop or animal husbandry. This is, in general, the essence of the proposed article.