PROSPECTS FOR IMPORT SUBSTUTION ON THE RAINMAKING EQUIPMENT MARKET

The paper reviews a state of the Russian market of irrigation equipment in general and rainmaking machines in particular. Dynamics of development of irrigated agriculture in Russia and the current and future needs of Russian agricultural producers in irrigation equipment related to it were analyzed, what made it possible to calculate the market capacity of this equipment in various categories. Prospects for import substitution in this branch of engineering industry were identified, what allowed justifying feasibility for import substitution scenario by comparing samples of foreigh rainmaking machinery with its domestic analogues. It has been established that the most added value in production of a rainmaker is created due to its most simple assemblies. A complex system of transnational division of labor, being inherent for production of rainmaking equipment, like most other branches of modern engineering, leads to fact of most complex components in a structure of rainmaker are made by a small number of highly specialized manufacturers, and their cost is relatively small due to the scale of production, what allows to mount high‑quality components and assemblies of rainmaker on domestic production frames, and a cost of last builds up the largest share of cost of machine as a final product, creating a possibility of production of domestic rainmaking equipment demanded by the market.

import substitution, irrigated agriculture, irrigative meliorations, irrigation equipment, irrigation engineering, rainmaking machines, prospective demand for irrigation equipment, budgetary effect of import substitution of irrigation equipment, socio‑economical effect of import substitution, sustainable development of agriculture.

Novikov A. A., Vasilyuk D. I., Gurba A. V., Kozenko K. Yu. Prospects for import substution on the rainmaking equipment market. Business. Education. Law, 2019, no. 4, pp. 184–189. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2019.49.439.