THE IMPACT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR'S WORKFORCE ON INCREASING THE AVAILABILITY OF FOOD PRODUCTS Annotation

The purpose of the article is to determine the level of accessibility of socially significant food products in the country, as well as to study the role of labor resources in the agricultural sector as one of the main mechanisms for regulating problems in it. The article analyzes the dynamic changes in the volume of socially significant food consumption by the population of the republic for 2018-2023 and the compliance of these indicators with the scientifically based physiological norm of food consumption per capita. In addition, a comparative analysis of the number of employed people in agriculture by type of economic activity and their wages was carried out. As a result of the study, a number of problems were identified that hinder the country's food security, including: unstable dynamics of agricultural production in gross domestic product (GDP), dependence on food imports, problems in food processing and lack of adequate food security in the agricultural sector, reduction of the labor force and the maintenance of minimum wages in this sector. The article highlights the need for stable employment of labor resources in the agricultural sector and maintaining the stability of average wages as the main mechanism for effectively solving this problem. The differences between the average annual effective rate of consumption of basic foodstuffs by the population per capita and the actual volume of consumption were also studied. To this end, it is scientifically justified that state and local executive bodies should pay special attention to the development of various organizational forms of agricultural cooperation and the expansion of non-agricultural activities.

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