MACAR FADN UYGULAMASININ AZERBAYCAN'DA GERÇEKLEŞTİRİLMESİ: SONUÇLAR VE BEKLENTİLERİ

Agriculture is a meaningful component of Azerbaijan’s non-oil economy and has significant potential for boosting export revenues, and at the same time increasing food security and economic diversification. Azerbaijan's agriculture is highly fragmented and mostly based on small family-owned farms, created as a result of privatization of former collective and state farms. Agriculture is 99.9 percent private, out of which 66.8 percent of specialized agricultural producers consist of family-villager, 32.8 percent housekeeping and only 0.2 percent farming. Government of Azerbaijan is now giving priority to non-oil sectors, including agriculture, to diversify economy and provide food security. Government subsidies crop and seed production, fertilizer, agricultural machinery etc. In the current stage, assessing the impact of subsidy policy has not been implemented and any research or monitoring in this direction was not implemented. That’s why there’s need for implementation of assessment of the results of subsidy policy applied in agrarian sector. Also, scarce information on production costs and farms profitability, in line with the lack of adequate institutional arrangements between the institutions collecting, processing and analyzing information are serious obstacles to the preparation of relevant analyses. The establishment of FDMS will address these problems and allow to collect, process and analyze information on small and medium farms level, which produce more than 90 percent of agricultural products in the country. Establishment process of FDMS is analysed and recommendations for improvement are put forward in this article.