Sugar Beet Production in Ukraine: Current State and Development Trends of Beet Sowing Enterprises

The topic relevance depends on the fact that the problems of food security support have always been, are and will be of highest priority for any state. Therefore today for Ukraine, being in the times of crisis, agriculture could become a guarantor of economic security. Improving stability and efficiency of sugar beet and sugar production is one of the most urgent in the system of national agricultural policy and food security, whereas productivity of confectionery functioning, bakery, pharmaceutical, canning, chemical, cosmetic and other industries depends on the efficiency of sugar industry enterprises for which sugar and related products are raw materials. The goal of the article is to study the current state and development trends of the sugar beet production in Ukraine and Kyiv region, through analysis of its key indicators of industrial and economic activity. To establish the influence of factors on sugar beet production grouping has been conducted according to the statements of agricultural enterprises of Ukraine for 2015. 397 farms which exercise accounting in full were selected for the analysis. It has been determined that there is a direct linear relationship between yield and total manufactured output. Meaning that, the higher the company performance yield is, the more will the production of sugar beets be, and accordingly the amount of profit, and vice versa. Also, having analyzed the performance indicators of the regional peculiarities of the industry, including the Kiev region, it has been revealed that productivity is the most important indicator, which reflects the impact of crop, and its level describes the impact of economic, institutional and environmental conditions in which the process of agricultural production is conducted, and reflects the quality economic performance of each economy. Therefore, to increase sugar beet yields, as extremely labor-intensive culture, it should be strived to improve the quantitative and qualitative indicators of soil and implement intensive technologies into the production process that provide improvement of mechanization on the main stages of cultivation and harvesting.