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Siberian Federal District (SFD) is located in the center of the Russian Federation, occupying 30% of its territory. Its population is 19,326 thousand people, which constitutes 13.2% of Russia's total population. The district consists of 12 constituent entities, which, to one degree or another, are engaged in agricultural production. Grain crops are grown in each of the SFD regions, with the way being currently led by Altai Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Omsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, and Novosibirsk Oblast, which account for 90% of the district's gross grain output. Most of the district's land under cultivation is sown to wheat (67%). However, due to unstable and low prices for wheat, agriproducers are forced to consider dropping some of the traditional crops and shifting, in accordance with the changing needs of the market, to other - sought-after and more competitive - grain crops. Another major issue in grain production within the district is the relatively low quality of grain, which diminishes its competitiveness in the market, with nearly 60% of all grain being represented by low-protein feeding grain. It may, therefore, be advantageous for Siberian agriculturists to grow grain for livestock farming, and this may require enhancing the actual structure of the land under cultivation and focusing on growing grain crops with the protein component greater than in the 4th class soft wheat. The paper shares some of the findings from an assessment of the region's agro-climatic potential for the period through to 2025. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher output of competitive and high-quality agricultural products implies the more efficient use of the resource potential held by agricultural organizations. In the modern conditions, it is essential to substantiate indicators and conditions in order to improve the efficiency of the resource potential and to determine resource potential needs for the manufacture of agricultural products. The agroindustrial complex resource system aims to improve the efficiency of its use. The entry into the resource potential system includes the attraction of main production factors (labor, land, capital, entrepreneurship). The resource potential system is used as a subsystem of a region’s economic potential. The exit from the system constitutes the more efficient use of the resource potential. The exit from the resource potential system is the entry into the production potential system with a view to manufacturing agricultural products. An agricultural organization’s resource potential is a transparent production system, in which entrepreneurship, taking into account the prevailing market conditions, the modern development level of production forces and production relations, unites, in an optimal combination, in an organization of the relevant organizational-legal form and puts into action technologically dependent factors of agricultural production (labor, land, capital). In the article, the authors substantiate conditions and targets for the efficient use of the resource potential. Taking into account innovative development and achievements of leading companies, resource needs for grain and milk output have been determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ramp-up of the agricultural industry output requires the use of new, high-performance machines, whilst the complicated world economic situation has made it difficult to purchase foreign agricultural equipment. All these factors contributed to an increase in the demand for both domestic and Belarusian equipment. Tractors and various attachments are the most popular type of farm machinery with agricultural producers, which is used in almost all farm works. In this regard, there is a significant load being placed on them which leads to frequent breakdowns. At the same time, the age of tractors in farms of the Novosibirsk Region is mostly more than 10 years, which is also one of the reasons for failing. Most farms are simply unable to regularly update their machine and tractor fleet; therefore, during the spring field works or crop harvesting, it often happens that machines break down and wait for repairs for a long time. This results in crop losses and low yields. It is necessary to develop such a mechanism of the material support for agricultural producers which will help to avoid equipment downtime and lead to an increase in the gross collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]