Abstract
During the years of agrarian transformation, the area of fruit and small fruit plantings in agricultural organizations has declined sharply due to low investment attractiveness and high labor intensity of the branch. Economic efficiency of horticulture varies by year and tends to growth. However, the achieved level of profitability does not allow the expanded reproduction in the branch. Lower than in the western countries competitiveness of domestic horticultural products and increase the share of imported fruit products in the domestic market, is not a sufficient level of state support for the orchards and care of young plantations, the monopoly of processing industry enterprises, the disparity of prices in commodity exchange between horticulture and other sectors of the economy, high rates of inflation inhibit the growth of economical efficiency of fruit production. Priority directions of development of horticulture involve extensive use of domestic production technology of fruit production, adapted to local climatic conditions, planting of gardens of intensive type, the reconstruction of perennial plants on the basis of scientific turnover garden, development of agro-industrial integration and other scientific developments of Russian scientists in the field of breeding of fruit and small fruits crops, mechanization of production processes, storage, processing and commodity processing production, growing of planting material, adapted to local climatic conditions. It is necessary to increase funding for horticulture with the aim of increasing its investment attractiveness. For level of state support up to 50 %, stubbing of gardens - up to 80 % of the costs, differentiation the level of state support depending on the density of plantings are needed to stimulate laying of plantings.