The work is devoted to the study of bean crop cultivar response to biological preparations at pre-sowing seeds treatment (for productivity elements). The experimental part of the work was conducted at Omsk State Agrarian University after P. A. Stolypin that is located in West Siberia southern forest-steppe during the years 2010–2012. Seven bean cultivars were used as objects for the study: Byelorusskie (VNIISSOK, Moscow, Byelorussia), Velena, Russkie Chernye (VNIISSOK, Moscow), Alfred, Merkur (the Netherlands), Hangdown Grunkernig, Dreifach Weibe (Germany); four biopreparations: Novosil (natural regulator of plant growth and development), Rostok (natural humic preparation out of peat), Baikal (based on soil dwelling microorganisms) and Planriz (bacterial preparation based on live cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens culture, strain AP-33) The experimental pattern included treatment-free variants (control) and the variant with seeds pre-sowing treatment with biological preparations. All the preparations produced positive effects on seed productivity. Seed productivity increase per plant made up 4–17 % versus the control variant. The best indexes were obtained with the preparation Novosil, it was more effective when applied to the crop samples during the vegetation period. Over the years of the study the highest seed productivity of the crop was achieved in the variants with this preparation applied to cultivars Byelorusskie (390 g/m2), Alfred (330 g/m2). The data obtained allow to recommend bean cultivars mentioned and biological preparations to be used in practice under the conditions of West Siberia southern forest-steppe.

The paper considers the role of grain mass per spike as one of the main traits for which an individual selection is carried on for productivity in the hybrids of early spring wheat generations. Based on comparative examination of three generations in hybrid populations it is shown that the degree of phenotypic dominance can vary with crossing combinations and season conditions. The increased number of combinations with the trait super dominance was marked in the year unfavorable for moisture supply. The populations were identified which every spike exceeded the best parent for grain mass per spike. Individual selections were analyzed which were carried out in the second generation for the shift in offspring and heritability coefficient. It is shown that despite the high level of breeding differential, the selection efficiency for grain mass per spike is small, which is confirmed by minor correlation coefficient between generations F2–F3. The trait heritability realized in the selection groups varies from positive to negative values.

Based on the data of research conducted in the zone of risky seed production in Ukraine’s western forest-steppe that is characterized by poor natural soil fertility, higher acidity, heterogeneous soil cover and high hydrothermal coefficient (1.5–1.8) the paper provides economic estimation of winter wheat cultivars seed production, the wheat of ecological forest-steppe type of mid-early- and mid-ripening groups with different uncommon precursors and sowing dates. Profitability of the best seed stock production depended both upon precursors and cultivar characteristics and made up 54–73 for winter rape, 39–57 % for oat, the cost of 1 ton of seed output was 1.89–2.04 and 2.00–2.26 tsnd. grivnas, respectively. In acceptable sowing dates these indexes constituted 60–100 % and 1.57–1.97 tsnd. grn./t, but in late sowing dates they were 35–78 % and 1.76–2.32 tsnd. grn./t.

Silicon containing fertilizer “Siliplant” and mineral fertilizers are established to influence ornamental traits of lawn herbage. Increased projective covering of lawn herbage – meadow grass and red fes-cue – is marked with the preparation “Siliplant” and mineral fertilizers applied, particularly with their joint application. In the first and second years of research in dry and excessively humid vegetation periods the optimal results were obtained through the joint treatment with mineral fertilizers and the preparation “Siliplant”: the projective covering increased in the year of sowing by averaged 27.5 % in meadow grass and 25 % in red fescue versus the control, in the second year the covering went up by averaged 19.7 and 8.44 %, respectively. Mineral fertilizers applied increased the projective covering in the year of sowing on average by 22.5 % in meadow grass and by 20 % in red fescue, in the second year they did by 14.7 % and 6.25 %, respectively. The treatment with the silicon-containing preparation “Siliplant” increased the projective covering in the year of sowing by averaged 15 % in meadow grass and by 7.5 % in red fescue; in the second vegetation period the averaged effect of the treatment was by 6.58 and 1.51 % higher, respectively.

In West Siberia northern forest-steppe phytosanitary situation was examined in soya agrocoenosis in the years 1997–2013. The examination resulted in revealing a complex of the crop diseases. Among soil-borne infections the most common and deleterious are root rots caused mostly by fungi of Fusarium genus (F. oxysporum, F. oxysporum var. orthoceras, F. solani, F. solani var. coeruleumi, F. sambucinum var. minus, F. avenaceum, F. gibbosum, etc.). The disease progress exceeded the threshold of harmfulness through all the years of examination and reached over 70 %. Fusarium wilt was marked by considerable progress under dry conditions (over 70 %). Among leaf-stem infections, widely spread are fire blight (up to 35.8 %), peronosporose (37.0 %), and septoriose (32.5 %). Significant correlation of fire blight progress was revealed under warm humid conditions (r = 0.74 ± 0.21). The examinations carried out testify to the wide spread of the diseases in soya bean and the urgency to develop the complex of protective events to control them.

Colorado beetle was present on potato plantations through the entire vegetation colonizing and damaging them in a different way depending on the degree of tuber sets infestation with bare patch causative agent. The plants grown out of the tubers free from the infection onset show up a small amount of phytophage on the 33rd day after planting, but the plantations out of the tubers with bare patch sclerotia do 6 days later. The number of Colorado beetle imagoes was higher in the second case and made up 0.36 specimens per plant whereas in the first case it was by 1.3 less. Egg-laying began in the phase of complete shoots. The maximal number of egg-layings was observed in the plants grown out of healthy tubers, 0.29 egg-layings per plant, which is 1.2 times more than in the plantations out of the planting stock infected with bare patch sclerotia. The first larvae in the both cases emerged at the beginning of potato budding, but the number of the pests was close to and varied from 0.53 to o.57 pests per plant regardless the presence or absence of bare patch sclerotia on the planting stock. The peak number of larvae was observed in the phase of ripening: on the 50th day after planting and in the plants out of sclerotia-free tubers and on the 53rdday – in the plants out of sclerotized tubers. It was also established that in the first case potato was infested by the pest by 1.4 heavier than it was in the second case. The maximal number of summer generation imagoes was fixed in the phase of ripening. In this case the number of Colorado beetles on healthy plants was 1.2 times higher than that on the plantations out of bare patch sclerotized tubers. The crop attractiveness for imago in the field did not depend on bare patch presence on the planting stock. Larvae fed longer on the plants out of healthy tubers. The index was 1.8 times different. The intensity of leaf surface damage in potato bushes out of sclerotized tubers is by 11.2 % higher than in the plants out of healthy tubers. Tuber losses caused by Colorado beetle made up 29 %, by bare patch – 34 %, but the complex of harmful organisms concerned caused 46 % of the losses.

 

Herbicides and fertilizers applied increase chlorophyll accumulation, photosynthesis productivity and wheat yield. The total amount of chlorophyll during vegetation varied within 0.2–0.8 % of leaf dry matter. When exposed to ammonium nitrate and Dialen separately and jointly, chlorophyll content increases during vegetation, with joint application the increase being much higher. Chlorophyll content maximal value was in the phase of tillering, minimal one was in the phase of shooting. Photosynthesis maximal value was observed in all ontogenesis phases in the variant with ammonium nitrate and Dialen joint treatment. Under separate expositions to ammonium nitrate and Dialen wheat yielding goes up, but their strongest effect can be seen in the variant of joint application. The wheat yielding increase is due to the higher number of productive stalks, grains number per plant and 1 000 grains weight.

Fungicide treatment of seedlings is the method of prompt response to negative changes in the phytosanitary conditions of agrocoenosis. Their treatments are to be economically and ecologically justified. The aim of the research was to study technological techniques of applying plant growth regulators, biopreparations and fungicides to spring wheat in order to choose the most effective of them, improving phytosanitary conditions of seedlings and increasing crop productivity under Kurgan region conditions. Field experiments were conducted in Central test-field of Kurgan Research Institute of Agriculture in 2004–2013. The objects of research were soft spring wheat cultivars: Omskaya 18 (in 2004–2006), Omskaya 36 (in 2007– 2013). Bare fallow was the precursor. The field experiments conducted showed different efficiency of the preparations of fungicide effect on spring wheat under altering intensity of agrocoenosis damage. Yielding went up by 3.0–18.7 % versus the control. Biological efficiency of the preparations was determined by reacting substance and degree of wheat leaf damage from 46.2 to 97.7 % in the years of epiphytoties and from 10 to 83.5 % under the conditions of moderate progress of leaf-stem infections. The treatment with fungicide preparations is considered unreasonable in the years of depressive manifestation of air-borne and above ground diseases.

Diagnostic signs of the disease examined in 18 onion and rhizome salad onion species include the symptoms such as leaf chlorosis, leaf blade tips dying off, growth inhibition, withering, above-ground mass drying, rot and flower heads mummification, pedicle breaks, root and bulb rots. Light coats or sporiferous balls of pale gray, pinkish and orange color appear at the base of pseudostalk, leaves or their axils, pedicles and flower heads, which is characteristic of sick plants. For the first time, the symptom of “white spires” was revealed in salad onions attacked by fusariosis, which can be used as a marker in phytosanitary monitoring. It is marked that fusariosis infection can mask on plants looking as dark coats of hyphomycetes of Stemphylium, Alternaria and Heterosporium genera. Bright reddish spore carriers of disease causative agents are similar to small well-opened pustules of rust causative agents, Puccinia allii. It is established that phenophases of budding and flowering are the main dates to diagnose the disease visually on salad onions under the conditions of West Siberia forest-steppe.

The paper studies comparative productivity of sown unispecies grasses and grass mixtures under different cover crops. The grasses under barley cover developed more intensively. Haulm stand density and perennial grasses height under barley cover are higher than those under grass mixture cover, which determined richer yielding capacity of perennial grasses. However, the effect of cover crop on productivity of sown perennial grasses is minor and this was concluded, on average, from two experiments laid for 5 years. A considerable influence of cover crop was marked in the first years of grasses life. Under the cover of barley the productivity of perennial grasses was much higher than it was under cereal-legume grass mixture. After the third year of life the difference in yielding capacity of sown perennial grasses under different cover crops gradually smoothes over and becomes minor. Consequently, cover crop does not influence productive longevity of grasses. The grass mixture of lucern and rump is distinguished by the highest productivity and that of cereal grasses and Galega orientalis is by the lowest.

The data on the study of new cultivars and hybrids of vegetable marrow squash are given. It is revealed that all the experimental plants grew and developed similarly. Their undergoing the phases of development differed in 1–4 days. It is revealed that the experimental plants refer to the early-ripening group. Maximal yielding was marked in the third decade of July: from 38.26 to 57.3% of the total yields. In all the rest of the decades yields were distributed roughly equally. The following cultivars and hybrids were the first to stop producing yields: WS 750 F₁ , Yantai F₁ № 5, Yantai F₁ № 4, Yanhu F₁ 10–4, Yakor (anchor). Maximal productivity in the second and third decades was marked in the cultivars Aral and Sukha and in the hybrids Bianca F₁ , Verdi F₁ , Yanhu F₁ 10–5. Mathematical processing of the total productivity showed that differences in the experiment are essential. Difference between the variants makes up from minimal values (LMD) up to almost 5-fold differences. The highest total productivity is marked in the cultivars: Aral (28.23 kg/m² ) and Sukha (22.33 kg/m² ), the least one – in the hybrids WS 750 F₁ , Yantai F₁ № 4, Yantai F₁ № 5 (2.95, 3.12 and 6.93 kg/m² , respectively). Standard output in most variants of the experiment made up 100%, except for the hybrids Bianca F₁ , Yantai F₁ № 4, Yantai F₁ № 5. Standard output in all the variants is 11. 18 and 14% accordingly lower than the control. Degustation evaluation of all the experimental cultivars and hybrids was high: from 4.34 points in the hybrid Yantai F₁ № 4 to 4.95 points in the hybrid Bianca F₁ . All the experimental cultivars and hybrids are resistant to the complex of diseases, except for the hybrids Yantai F₁ № 4 and № 5.

The paper presents the data on the activity and polymorphism of interphase nucleolus-forming regions of chromosomes and their relationship with productive indices in pigs of different breeding. The distribution of cells with different INFR number was unlike in the groups of Large White sows aged 1.5 years and the sows of Large White x Landrace F1 hybrids aged 2 years. The cells with 2 (34 and 31.8%) and 3 INFR (25.9 and 30.5%) occurred most frequently and roughly equally. Significant difference was revealed between the animals of the 1st and 2nd groups for the number of cells with 1 INFR – 22.9 and 9.9% (P<0.001), respectively. The fact of finding out the cells with 5 and 6 INFR in the both groups (3.4; 0.1 and 11.6; 6.5%) was also marked; at the same time, there happened to occur the animals which cells had 7 INFR (1.8%) in the group of sows of Large White x Landrace F1 hybrids aged 2 years. Cytological analysis showed that the mean value in the index of ratio of lymphocyte square to the square of nucleolus in the 1st group was 1.2 times less (P<0.001) than that in the 2nd group. It is suggested to use the coefficient of index values variability as an additional criterion that characterizes the level of nucleoli activity. Increased NFR activity in chromosomes conjugates with protein synthesis required to realize productivity traits as well as to maintain physiological homeostasis of animals. Increased INFR index and extended boundaries of NFR polymorphism are revealed in the 2nd group of imported animals, which reflects the adaptation of animals to a new habitat in the case concerned.

The paper presents research data on the study of the degree and characteristics of anthropogenic pollutant accumulation – lead –in the body of wood grouse, Tetrao Urogalis, dwelling in West Siberia. Tetrao Urogalis peculiarities of food behavior in the winter period indicate that in addition to the main source of lead entrance into the fowl body – needles of pine, Pinus sylvestris Linnaeus, those of cedar, Pinus sibirica Du Tour – the entrance of the toxicant with gastroliths which are adsorbents of natural origin is also possible. The following regulations are revealed regarding the distribution of the toxicant in organs and tissues of the fowl obtained in Molchanovsky district of Tomsk region: bone tissue > feather > gastric contents > liver > feces > heart > gizzard stomach > lung > goiter contents. Pb high level in bone tissue and wood grouse feathering afford ground for determining the ecological ill-being in the area of research into Pb content and possibility to use the fowl species concerned as a bioindicator of environmental conditions.

The paper provides research data on the search for genetic markers of Red Steppe animals growth and development. The indices are the ones of the most important breeding traits which influence the formation of constitution, exterior, productivity and vitality of animals. High rate of growth in the early postnatal period is preferable in economic terms. However, at present, there is a problem of heavy calving. As a consequence, the cows cannot recover long, they cannot fully realize their potential of productivity. The gene of tumor necrosis factor alpha codes for the multifunctional protein which, concurrently with immune response functions, plays an important part in general metabolism. Polymorphism –824 A/G of the gene of tumor necrosis factor alpha is examined with the method of polymerase chain reaction with concomitant analysis of restriction fragments lengths in the herd of Red Steppe cow breeds at the agricultural artel of the breeding-farm “Stepnoy” of German national district in Altai Krai. The frequency of the rare allele A in the sample of 57 animals examined made up 25%. Distribution of genotypes frequency corresponded to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium A true association of G/A genotype is established with decreased weight of calves at birth (p<0.05). No true differences among the animals with different genotypes were revealed in the sample concerned for the indices of average daily and relative gains.

Blood serum biochemical indices are examined in the calves receiving whole milk substitutes (WMS). It is established that WMS in calves feeding resulted in increased protein content and its leading fraction albumin in blood serum, on average, by 4.23 g/l and 2.57%, respectively. The highest protein coefficient is marked in the heifers of experimental groups in the second month of life – 0.91–0.95. In the heifers of the 1st experimental group, which received WMS “Kalvolac 16”, the level of calcium and inorganic phosphorus in blood serum exceeded analogous indices in the animal of the 2nd experimental and control groups, it being statistically valid. Significantly important increase in the level of alkali reserve was revealed in the heifers receiving WMS, which can be explained by intensified exchange processes in their organism and earlier feeding of vegetable feeds. Urine content in blood serum is age-increasing in all the experimental animals, the highest degree of the increase being in the heifers of the 1st experimental group. The analogous dynamic is identified in determining the index of aminotransferase activity (ALT and AST). At the same time, the index of the animals, that received “Kalvolac 16”and “Mologa-2000”, was by 2.32 and 0.74 higher versus the control, which is confirmed by increased protein content in the blood of animals from the experimental groups. No intergroup differences were identified for the content of vitamins A and E over the examination period. In whole, the biochemical indexes examined characterized normal physical conditions of the experimental animals.

To have a more comprehensive and deeper insight into pathogenic characteristics of BLV infection and leucosis progress in cattle the attention should be paid to a series of exogenic factors. Age, breed, productivity, housing technology, nutrition type, animal zoning are referred to the facts involved. In this respect it is urgent to conduct targeted examination of biochemical status in Ayrshire cows that, regarding the leucosis (BLV) infection, were zoned in the conditions of Krasnodar region. There were arranged 4 groups of animals, bovine leucosis virus infected and intact. Considerable quantitative differences were identified in the content of serum protein, calcium, urine, alpha-amilase, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), magnesium, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), cholesterol, creatinine and copper in connection with BLV compromised animals. Comparative biochemical changes were shown in the imported cattle in the period of adaptation to new habitat conditions.

The search for new preparations effective against viral causative agents in cattle infections is the most important objective of the modern veterinary pharmachology. The virus of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis is widespread on the farms of Siberian region and plays an important part in animal pathology causing big economic losses in the modern livestock-breeding. Antiviral activity of the preparations referred to the group of probiotics is little studied. The antiviral activity of vetom 1.23 against BHV-1 is determined in vitro. The antiviral activity was assessed by reduction of the virus; the assessment was conducted after the virus’s having interacted with vetom 1.23. Graft cell culture of MDBK calf’s kidney was used in the experiment. Avirulent strain ТК-А was used as the virus-test. vetom 1.23 was introduced in the maximal tolerant concentration (62.5 mm3 / cm³ ). The experimental outcomes showed that vetom 1.23 at the dose recommended for the examination and introduced (maximal tolerant concentration) appeared to be little effective against BHV-1, it was poor inhibition in virus multiplication that was observed; the virus titer went down by 0.13–0.5 log₁₀. However, the preparation manifested expressed antivirus effect in higher concentrations.

The tests of the probiotic additive veles 6.59, that is composed of Lactobacillusplantarum VKPM В-2347 and Propionibacteriumfreudenreichii VKPM В-6561, were conducted on the rabbits of Sovie1 Chinchilla breed with the aim to determine the changes in meat biological value and its organoleptic characteristics. For the tests three groups of animals were formed: two experimental and one control. The rabbits were 45-day old and there were 5 of them in each group. The animals of the 1st and 2nd experimental groups received veles 6.59 in the drinking water at the dose of 0.25 and 0.5 ml/kg of body weight once a day during 30 days, the control group did not receive the preparation. Housing and feeding conditions for the rabbits were analogous. They were slaughtered on the 90th day of the experiment, before the slaughter that they had not been given water for 4–5 hours. Rabbit meat biological indexes altered under the effect of the probiotic. As compared to the control, the administration of veles 6.59 at the dose of 0.25 ml/kg was observed to increase protein and decrease dry matter, fat, crude ash, calcium, phosphorus, but receiving Veles 6.59 at the dose of 0.5 ml/kg was marked to increase the content of protein, crude ash, calcium and decrease the amount of dry matter, fat, phosphorus in meat. The decreased content of dry matter in the rabbit meat is consistent with largely decreased fat. The preparation administred improves the dietary value and organoleptic estimation of rabbit meat quality. The best results of quality and dietary value were achieved with veles 6.59 applied at the dose of 0.25 ml/kg of animal body weight during 30 days.

The paper presents the data on examination of microbiocoenosis of urogenital tract in 144 dogs of different breed and age whose private owners are Novosibirsk citizens. Microorganisms isolated from pathological stock were analyzed for their sensitivity to antibacterial preparations. Frequently identified microorganisms were found out, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Escherichia coli, and Proteus mirabilis. There were established associations of microorganisms Staphylococcus spp. + Enterococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp. + Proteus spp. The paper also shows microorganisms’ sensitivity to β-lactam antibiotics, aminoglycosides fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, macrolides, etc. Microorganisms were found out to be resistant to antibiotics, such as oxacillin, doxycycline, and rifampicin. High activity of fluoroquinolones is determined regarding most microorganisms. The data obtained are of practical value for selecting antibacterial preparations when treating dogs’ gynecological diseases of infectious etiology.

The extract of Siberian abies enhances defensive forces of the body against different unfavorable factors due to available natural complex of vitamins and other biologically active substances fully compatible with human organism It is a good immune stimulator, particularly in the period of infectious diseases, produces an anti inflammatory effect in the diseases of bronchopulmonary system, encourages hematosis. Possessing antitoxic properties, the extract reduces side-effects of different medicinal preparations. Under the conditions of industrial poultry-farming complex estimation of the effect of Siberian abies extract inhalations was performed, i. e., the effect of the preparation ABISIB on hematological and biochemical indexes as well as on the productivity of cross ISA-15 broiler-chickens was assessed. There is science-and experiment-based evidence of the reasonability to administer the extract in broiler poultry-farming through inhalations. Rational norm of the preparation that is to provide high growth stimulatory effect is determined to conduct inhalations during intensive broiler raising under their cage housing. The Siberian abies extract inhalations disinfect the air in premises, encourage haemopoiesis, they also beneficially influence the state of immune system; enhance poultry vitality, productivity and economic indexes. Changes in hematological indexes and titers of antiviral antibodies were analyzed in broiler-chickens treated with the preparation ABISIB.

The paper shows the dynamics of differences in hematologic indexes, changes in the structure and cytoarchitectonics of iliac lymphatic node in mice infected with Rauscher leucosis virus. It is established that the progress of virus-induced chronic Rauscher leucosis in experimental mice of line BALB/с is characterized by increasing erythropenia, leucopenia and normalized count of leukocytes in the terminal stage of the disease. The leukograms of infected mice indicate the increased number of neutrophils, eosinocytes, monocytes; degenerative shift of neutrophil nuclei to the left is expressed. Morphological examinations allowed to identify that during the hyperplastic period of the disease progress cytoarchitectonics of iliac lymphatic node is characterized by reduced transport function, increased proliferative activity of lymphoid cells exposed to antigen, activated exchange processes in the cells of B-zone of the lymphatic node that realizes immune response. In the terminal stage of the disease morphometry of lymphatic nodes in the experimental group largely changes, the transport function of the iliac lymphatic node becoming stronger and its non-specific humoral immunologic reactivity going down. Cell composition of germinative centers alters, at the same time the number of blast shapes and mitoses increases, which testifies to processes of proliferation taking place when exposed to antigen.

Supernatants of monocultures of lactic acid feed addivitve (LFD) based on the microorganisms of the probiotics Lactobacillus acidophilus L-41, Streptococcus termophilus В-41, Bifidobacter longum Б-41, Propionobacterium freudenreichii shermanii 76 enhance antibiotic sensitivity in E. coli ATCC 25222 and S. enteritidis 182 to different extents from the 1^st to the 30^th day since the start of cultivation when contacting for 18–20 hours. The highest growth of sensitivity in E. coli ATCC 25222 to antibacterial preparations (from 41.7 to 54.2%) is marked after the cultivation with probiotic cultures aged 20 and 30 days. The contact of the supernatants of all the LFD monocultures concerned and obtained on the 10^th and 30^th day of their cultivation with S. enteritidis 182 followed by antibiotic sensitivity determined causes the diameter of microorganisms growth delay to increase more than it does in the 20-day cultures. The examinations conducted offer the challenges to study the influence of metabolites of probiotic microorganisms in LFD composition for antibiotic sensitivity of opportunistic pathogenic microflora, which assists in solving the problem of antibiotic resistance and consequently, enhancing the efficiency of treatment-and-prophylactic veterinary events in livestock-breeding.

Methodical positions for priority development of interregional and interstate food relations are justified. They include estimation of the current state and layout of AIC industries; definition of efficiency of existing interregional and interstate food relations and their influence upon functioning of agrofood market; justification for the system of measures to improve the formed food relations subject to Russia’s membership in WTO. Stemming from the methodical positions, Siberia’s regions are determined which have the opportunity to export grain and livestock output beyond their territories. It is established that the level of interdependence of Siberia’s regions on goods exchange operations is quite high. It is revealed that at the present time there is no strategy of development of foreign-economic relations of Siberia’s regions to frontier countries. Insufficiently developed is the regulatory-legal base of interstate cooperation, there are no special programs for the development of regional export potential, personnel training and infrastructure development. The study resulted in perspective directions suggested for the development of foreign-economic activity in Siberia.

Author’s approach is proposed to forecast averaged per capita production and solvent demand for primary food stuffs. The approach provides balanced regional food market, selects adequate models to forecast demand and supply of the food stuffs in Novosibirsk region for the period 2013–2015. The paper interpretes the balance of regional food market as equilibrium relationship between the production volume of primary food stuffs and solvent demand of the population for those. To provide the balance of demand and supply in the long-term period forecasting of production for primary food stuffs and solvent demand expected are to be implemented. Equilibration suggests establishing the balance by importing the lacking volume of the stuffs concerned to meet the solvent demand already existing as well as by exporting excessive stuffs, the demand for is less that the production volume, beyond the regional territory. When realizing the author’s approach, regression models are used which reliability levels are high.

The paper analyzes the current state and use of lands for agricultural purpose in Novosibirsk region. It also reflects the dynamics of land supply area in Novosibirsk region for the period 2006–2012. The tendency is traced to the reduction of lands for agricultural purpose. The area of agricultural lands went down by 29 tsnd. for 1993–2012, arable land did by 154.9 tsnd. for the same period caused by the transition of poor quality arable land to long-fallow land and forage grasslands as well as other land categories. The work examines the use of agricultural lands by enterprises, organizations, Russia’s citizens and their groups. Deterioration of arable soil conditions is taking place, so is the plant cover of hay and pasture lands because of their irrational use, which results in decreased farm crops productivity, reduced volume of farm output and enterprises› profitability. The burning matter is to conduct a set of events: agrochemical, hydromeliorative, ameliorative, forest cultural, erosion-preventive and disturbed land recovery. The urgency arises to redistribute land plots for agricultural purpose in favor of the entities that are able to manage them most efficiently and rationally.

The work describes the tendencies of foreign capital inflow in Russia’s economy. It also discloses the specificity of direct foreign investments realization in corporate structures by giving an example of tobacco industry. Despite anti-tobacco measures the market of tobacco products does not degrade and tobacco companies remain attractive for investors. Identification of the factors of the social-economic situation is under way. It is marked that along with the final processing of raw tobacco stock it is especially important to attract investments in tobacco farming in rural territories of Russia’s regions. The recovery of home raw stock areas of South and North-Caucasian Federal Okrugs will allow to cultivate tobacco that is competitive in the international market. Based on the analysis of regulations in raw tobacco production in different countries of the world, economic estimation is performed on the expediency of growing tobacco plantations in the southern regions of Russia. The influence of tobacco subcomplex development intensification is shown. The paper justifies the importance to disseminate Russia’s good practice of international cooperation in tobacco business to other industries.