PERSONAL SUBSIDIARY FARM AS A SOURCE OF INCOME

Difficult socio-economic conditions associated with a high level of unemployment pose modern villagers with a difficult choice: to move to the city, to work on a rotational basis, to live off odd jobs, to engage in personal subsidiary farming, or to look for alternative sources of income, including illegal ones. In the scientific literature, one can find at least two points of view on the role of personal subsidiary farming: the attitude to it as to the forced strategy of survival and the idea of ​​it as an additional source of income. The purpose of this article is to assess the potential of personal subsidiary farming as a source of income. Methods. The empirical basis of the study was the materials of a sociological survey of the rural population of Khakassia in 2018. To study the indicated problem, the following groups of villagers were selected from the general sample: villagers whose only source of income is their personal subsidiary farming; villagers whose only source of income is wages; villagers whose only source of income is social benefits; villagers whose sources of income are both wages and personal subsidiary farming. Statistical data were also used. Results. Households of the population play a significant role in agriculture in the region, they account for two-thirds of all agricultural products. They are the main producers of vegetables, milk and meat. It turned out that the number of livestock on the farm is positively correlated with the level of material wealth. Most of the livestock is kept by the villagers, the only source of which is the private economy, and least of all – living on one salary. At the same time, the presence of several sources of income (both the economy and the salary) has a positive effect on the material situation of the villagers and significantly increases confidence in the future.