METHODOLOGY FOR RATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVE PROCESSES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF LABOR-INTENSIVE CROPS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF VEGETABLE GROWING OF PROTECTED SOIL)

The objective of the study: to perform a comprehensive assessment of the current state of vegetable production, analyze the indicators of economic development of the sub-sector and substantiate the main factors of growth of its efficiency, using the original methodology of “optimal management of innovation processes”. The research methodology is presented by an algorithm development labor-intensive crops (using the example of a typical representative of protected soil vegetable growing) based on innovative technologies, including a set of individual elements combined into a whole. The first element, “state policy and financing of innovative development of vegetable growing technologies,” will allow us to analyze sources of state financing until 2030 – 3949406.98 thousand rub. from the federal budget, 2802907.17 thousand rub. from extra-budgetary sources. The second element is the calculation and analysis of the main economic indicators of the leading greenhouse farms of the Saratov region, which identified the main producers of protected ground vegetables - JSC Volga, LLC REHN, JSC Sovkhoz-Vesna, LLC Leto-2002, which account for approximately 97.8% of the regional total. The third element includes determining the investment attractiveness of the objects under study for capital investment in new technologies. The simple investment attractiveness index tended to grow in 2023 compared to 2014 by 0.34 p.p., 0.12 p.p., 0.11 p.p., respectively, for the selected objects. The fourth element in the inversion scenario approach determined the size of internal reserves for capital investment due to modernization and accumulated depreciation. It is proposed to have two independent directions of development, focused on: 1. creation of a technological basis for the modernization of the production sector; 2. expansion of the scale of production. The fifth element contains the calculation of the final indicators of the effectiveness of the development of labor-intensive crops. Construction of a trend using the least squares method determined an annual growth trend in labor productivity of 9.49 centners per person and an increase in wages by 7457.43 rubles/person as a result of the expansion of the scale of production and by 40091.61 rubles/person due to improved qualifications.