IMPROVING THE METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING THE EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

The paper underlines the urgency of the economic evaluation and pricing for agricultural machinery, as well as its influence on the production and supply of farm enterprises with machinery. The activities of western and eastern firms determine the negative trends in domestic farm machinery market. The authors show some shortcomings of the currently used techniques of the economic evaluation of farm machinery and offer a methodical approach based on taking account of the price level of agricultural outputs produced using the evaluated equipment and the minimum level of profitability that provides conditions for extended reproduction. The paper presents the results of the technique approbation as exemplified by the RSM-161 combine harvester used for harvesting spring wheat and spring barley. It is stated that using a combine for harvesting these crops is impractical, since the actual operating costs exceed the maximum permissible ones and, as a consequence, the consumers’ money spent to purchase the combine do not pay off. Though the economic effect is produced as can be seen from the comparison of the "basic model" with the "new one" for the reduced costs. Introducing the limits of the effective use of technology and improving the economic evaluation of machinery will allow avoiding losses in the production process and ensuring the profitability level sufficient for extended reproduction of farm enterprises. It has been established that the criteria for reduced costs provide only the comparative effectiveness of various machinery options, and the limits of economic efficiency are represented by the effectiveness of machinery use in specific conditions of agricultural production.

сельскохозяйственная техника, экономическая оценка, рынок сельскохозяйственной техники, приведенные затраты, цена продукции, предельный (допустимый) уровень эксплуатационных затрат, экономический эффект, agricultural machinery, economic evaluation, agricultural machinery market, reduced costs, product price, marginal (permissible) level of operating costs, economic effect

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