GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES
The innovation-oriented effective development of US agriculture is determined by the quantity and quality of the implemented results of agricultural research, funded by the main funds holder - the state. The purpose of the study is to identify trends in government funding of agricultural science in the United States. The rationale for these trends is considered in the unity of the dynamics and structure of state financing of agricultural research in 1889-2019 and the system characteristics of this process as an economic phenomenon. Using the techniques of statistical-economic and abstract-logical methods of research, combined with a historical approach to the subject of study, the author obtained empirical results reflecting the dynamics of structural changes in the state financing of agricultural research in the United States in different time periods. The trends towards regionali-zation of agricultural science subsidies within the federal state are also identified.
Keywords: US agriculture, government funding, agricultural research, US Department of Agriculture, state agricultural experiment stations, Extension service.
Highlights:
♦ the theoretical (institutional) and methodological aspects of the study of the dynamics and structure of state funding of agricultural research in the United States are outlined;
♦ the structural and dynamic trends of state funding of agricultural research in the United States as an economic phenomenon of the development of agricultural production in 1889-2019 are identified and justified.
Valery N. Minat, Candidate of Geography, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Management of the Ryazan State Agrotechnological University by P.A. Kostychev.