Strategic management of agricultural productivity to increase food self-sufficiency in northern territories

Authors

  • Lyudmila Voronina N. Laverov Federal Research Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Maria Jurkevich Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Dilmurad Iakhiaev Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov
  • Aleksei Grigorishchin Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20397/2177-6652/2023.v23i2.2661

Keywords:

food self-sufficiency, crop yields, agriculture, northern regions, the Arctic

Abstract

At present, the issues of food security and self-sufficiency are raised globally. The Russian Federation is developing strategic planning documents at different administrative levels to ensure the country’s food security. A special priority is given to the self-sufficiency of regions in domestic agricultural products. This goal is harder to achieve in the northern and Arctic regions due to their harsh climate, low soil fertility, and poor transport and economic development of these vast territories. There is now an urgent need for new approaches to the development of agriculture in the North. The article is devoted to assessing the food self-sufficiency of Russia’s northern constituent entities in a 12-year period with crop yield as the leading factor. The primary research methods include content analysis, statistical and comparative analysis, and graphic modeling. The findings suggest that the northern regions have low self-sufficiency in potatoes and vegetables, which is associated with the insufficient area of cultivated land and harsh climate. The authors conclude that each northern constituent entity of Russia, depending on its cultivation conditions, requires high-yielding varieties of certain crops adapted to local conditions. In particular, the regions need early maturing crop varieties resistant to low spring and early fall temperatures.

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2023-05-11

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Voronina, L., Jurkevich, M., Iakhiaev, D., & Grigorishchin, A. (2023). Strategic management of agricultural productivity to increase food self-sufficiency in northern territories. Journal of Management & Technology, 23(2), 343–355. https://doi.org/10.20397/2177-6652/2023.v23i2.2661

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2023)

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