Economies of Scale and Provision of Technological Efficiency in Agricultural Complexes

The article sets forth a generalized understanding of economies of scale in agrarian production as a complex integrative phenomenon, implemented in a unity of three components - the intra-branch scale effect in agrarian production, the quality effect, the number of enterprises and the effect of their average scale production. The author's translogarithmic model of economies of scale and the approach to its optimization have been proposed. Specific, potential determinants of the high cost of agricultural products based on the assessment of trends in economies of scale and the level of technological efficiency in the specialized Crimean production units have been established. A parametric analysis of the economies of scale in the model of factor-resource potential has been constructed in the framework of the boundary stochastic function of agrarian production in order to ensure an adequate level of technological efficiency. The ways of increasing of the branch effectiveness and technological efficiency of the agrarian formations of Crimea have been proposed.