Erochkina N.V. 1
Butyaykin V.V. 1
1 The Mordovian State University of N.P. Ogayov
This work examines the aspects of the sustainable development of agriculture that enhance the competitiveness of national agriculture, due to the dynamically balanced use of production factors that will allow to solve the problem of ensuring food security of the country. The produced analysis of the state of agriculture in the Russian Federation, revealed some positive tendencies in its development over the past five years and the existing problems in this sphere. So, at the moment the productive capacity of agriculture has not been restored to a level that ensures its sustainable development. In this regard, the article reveals the priorities promoting the stabilization of the situation in agriculture, based on the creation of favorable conditions for increasing its investment attractiveness, examines the state policy in the sphere of agriculture, in particular reveals the role of program-target regulation. The results of research allowed to submit a set of measures promoting the transfer of agriculture to an innovative way of development because in the contemporary socio-economic conditions it will allow to achieve the sustainable development of agriculture and rural economy as a whole.