Russia's agriculture in transition : factor markets and constraints on growth / edited by Zvi Lerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lerman, Zvi, 1941-

Series:

Rural economies in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Russia (Federation).

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Russia (Federation).

Agriculture and state--Russia (Federation).

Agriculture and state.

Physical Description:

vi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2008.

Summary:

Russia's Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth examines the development of factor markets in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy and analyzes the impact of existing constraints on agricultural growth. It is the outcome of a three-year study conducted with the support of BASIS/CRSP by an international team that included researchers from Russia, the United States, and Israel. The study focused specifically on the development of factor markets in Russian agriculture-markets for labor, purchased inputs, land, and credit. In the literature on transition agriculture, this book is the first devoted explicitly to markets for farm inputs, instead of markets for farm products. It is also unique in its integration of official statistical data with the findings of a large questionnaire-based survey designed to cover issues of agricultural land, labor, supply and use of purchased inputs, access to credit, and-ultimately-farm production with a view to efficiency estimations. Russia's Agriculture in Transition will be of great interest to development economists, agricultural economists, transition scholars, and international donor organizations, in addition to scholars and students of many other related disciplines.

Contents:

Part I Changing Farm Structure

2 Large and Small Business in Russian Agriculture / Vasilii Uzun 11

3 Development of Peasant Farms: The Case of Tambov Oblast in Central Russia / Sergei Sazonov, Damira Sazonova 57

4 Agroholdings: Russia's New Agricultural Operators / Dmitri Rylko, Irina Khramova, Vasilii Uzun, Robert Jolly 95

Part II Developing Factor Markets

5 Land Reform and Development of Land Markets / Natalya Shagaida, Zvi Lerman 137

6 Completing Agricultural Land Reform in Russia: A Western View of Outstanding Policy and Legal Issues / Leonard Rolfes, Jr. 185

7 Rural and Agricultural Labor Markets / Vladimir Bogdanovskii 199

8 Markets for Purchased Farm Inputs / Evgeniya Serova, Olga Shick 243

9 Farm Finances and Access to Credit / Olga Yastrebova, Aleksandr Subbotin, David Epshtein 257

Part III Productivity and Efficiency of Russian Agriculture

10 The Allocative Efficiency of Input Use in Russian Corporate Farms / William M. Liefert 305

11 Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms: Evidence from the 2003 BASIS Survey / Margarita Grazhdaninova, Zvi Lerman 327

12 Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms: Evidence from National Data / Vasilii Uzun 335

13 Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Leningrad Oblast / David Epshtein 347

14 Technical Efficiency in Russian Agriculture / Gregory Brock, Margarita Grazhdaninova, Zvi Lerman, Vasilii Uzun 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739120095

0739120093

OCLC:

167495649