Problems of employment of the rural population of the Kurgan region

The issues of rural employment, as well as increasing the staffing of the agricultural sector of the economy today require a search for new approaches to solving these problems. The ongoing reforms in the country have entailed significant changes in agricultural production, the life of the rural population and its employment. Thus, the privatization of the main means of agricultural production and the emergence of new forms of management in the agro-industrial complex, for example, private farms, personal subsidiary farms, influenced the personnel situation in agriculture, and the level of unemployment and employment of the rural population has become different. This article discusses the problems of employment in rural areas using the Kurgan region as an example. The permanent population of the Trans-Urals in 2023 was 761.6 thousand people, including 489 thousand urban residents, and 272.6 thousand rural residents. During the study period, the rural population in the region decreased by 43 thousand people or 13.8%. The article analyzes the dynamics of birth and death rates in the Kurgan region, as well as the number of economically employed population, employment and unemployment rates. Over the period 2019-2023, the number of unemployed in agriculture in the Trans-Urals decreased by 6192 people (by 47.6%) and its level in 2023 was 6806 people. The authors noted the need to change the personnel situation in agricultural production to increase rural employment through various subsidies to rural producers. Various measures of state support for the agro-industrial complex, including grant assistance, should be accompanied by activities to retrain or improve the skills of agricultural workers, attract young specialists to the agro-industrial complex.