Innovative Technologies and Practices in the Potato Product Subcomplex of the Russian Agricultural and Industrial Complex

Abstract

The role of small business forms (IFCs) is discussed in the paper, which includes personal commodity (private farms), farmers (peasant farms), and small agricultural organizations (agricultural enterprises). Taken all together, they supply the Russian market with more than 50–60% of agricultural products. In order to ensure food security and the sale of large homogeneous batches of the environmentally friendly varietal fresh and processed potato and vegetable products to the domestic and world markets with the lowest losses and costs, it is advisable to create specialized non-waste agricultural production and trade cooperatives, with their own retail network. The authors consider the Russian agricultural and industrial complex as a highly interconnected system with multiple actors.