FEATURES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL CONSUMER COOPERATION IN RUSSIA AND ITS REGIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FORMATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

The article examines the features of the development of agricultural consumer cooperation in the Russian Federation in the context of digitalization. Digital transformations in agriculture have a great impact on the development of agricultural consumer cooperation in Russia and its regions. The introduction of new technologies will help improve operational efficiency. The authors have developed an algorithm for conducting a study of the features of the development of agricultural consumer cooperation in Russia and its regions in the context of the emergence of digital technologies. As a result of testing the proposed algorithm, the following features of the development of agricultural consumer cooperation were identified: the number of agricultural consumer cooperatives in the Russian Federation is decreasing, with the largest decrease in the number of credit and supply cooperatives being observed; The structure of agricultural consumer cooperatives by type of economic activity is changing. One can note the emerging trend of increasing the economic power of agricultural consumer cooperatives, as evidenced by: the size of the mutual fund of cooperatives increases as their number decreases; the amount of cash contributions made by cooperatives to the audit union and cooperatives of the next level is growing; the size of the reserve fund increases. In almost half of all regions of the Russian Federation, cooperatives have a low mutual fund size; as a result, they do not have sufficient opportunities to introduce digital technologies.