The territory of the Republic is divided into 23 rural administrative districts. The whole number of collective farms, joint stock companies, agricultural co-operative societies is 406. For the last years 1132 rural farms have been founded. Agricultural area makes 1.664.000 hectares including arable land 1.103.000 hectares. The plough area makes 71 per cent of all agricultural area.
Poultry farming is well-developed.
Shops of these enterprises, selling a wide assortment of meat and milk products are very popular among the population. 2600 thousand heads of all types of poultry. For the last 5 years the average production volume of main agricultural products in all types of undertakings was 702.2 thousand tonnes of grain, 130.6 thousand tonnes of sugar beet, 387.1 thousand tonnes of potatoes, 102.5 thousand tonnes of meat, 468.0 thousand tonnes of milk. Food and meat and milk industry production volume in 2000 was 2511 million roubles. Intensive growth rate of foreign economic activities of Mordovia promoted the attraction of domestic and foreign investments into the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Republic.