Competitive Barriers for Agricultural Producers in the Regional Retail Market

The paper has investigated some problems related to the organization and functioning of the regional market of agricultural products based on the Kaliningrad region case study. The agricultural market consists of a number of structural elements (wholesale market of agricultural products, grain market, seed market, etc.). Relations in the market of agricultural products are mediated by various contractual relations (agricultural procurement contracts, delivery, trade and purchasing interventions, etc.). Such relations are being regulated under several unrelated normative legal acts. The federal legislation does not include the agricultural market in the number of socially important markets, and only the retail market (and within the retail market the agricultural products retail market) is recognized as socially significant. In addition, regions at their own discretion can classify any market as a socially important market. In the Kaliningrad region, the agricultural products market has been attributed not only to socially significant, but to priority markets, which is reasonable. This approach is importa from the point of view of ensuring food security of a special exclave region of Russia, but it can also be justified for other constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The author has identified competitive barriers for agricultural producers and has proposed legal ways to overcome them.

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