Alternative Forms of Agricultural Farms Mechanization

P. Djandarmov

Abstract: The issue of selection of an appropriate form of technical provision of the agricultural farms is a basic problem in agriculture, assessing the great significance of the mechanizing for the production efficiency and compatibility improvement. In the survey is utilized the comparative institutional approach, as within the huge variety of natural-economic conditions, institutional environment changes and pluralism of organization forms, the actually applied traditional approach can’t provide a successful response to the question for the efficient forms of technical provision and the mechanized works achievement in the agricultural farms. The emphasis is placed on the investigation of the comparative efficiency of the alternative forms for mechanization provision of the agricultural farms. On the base of the analysis are formulated the following summarized conclusions: • The comparative institutional approach enriches the analysis of the alternative organization forms of the mechanization of agricultural farms. The transaction costs are the key for understanding the variety of organization forms of provision with machinery and mechanized services of the agricultural farms. • There is not a universal “most efficient” form of organization of the transactions concerning the work processes mechanization in the agricultural farms. • The changes in the institutional, organization and production-economic conditions lead to a change in the organization and the management of the activities of the provision and utilization of the agricultural machinery. • The efficient organization forms of agricultural farms mechanization develop parallel with the characteristic changes of the economic units themselves, of the transactions and the environment (institutional, economic, natural and technological etc.)

Keywords: agricultural farms; agricultural production mechanizing; comparative efficiency; comparative institutional approach; technical provision

Date published: 2018-03-30