Bio-Economy as a Key Lever for Improving the Performance of the Agro-Food Complex in the Northern Arctic Regions (On the Example of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))

Bio-production and waste-free technologies in Russia are becoming an integral part of the modern economy. These processes are facilitated by political sanctions and the need to ensure food security and food independence for the country. The growth in the number of processing enterprises and other forms of business with a complete closed production cycle is also of considerable importance to this process. This is particularly true for large enterprises that can develop and implement innovative waste-free biotechnologies in production. All this helps to overcome import dependence and, most importantly, en-sures environmental protection and ecological measures. Population growth and rising consumption levels, as well as the demand for environmentally friendly food, require the rational and economical use of resources. In turn, in order to increase the efficiency of the use of biological resources, especially in regions with difficult natural and climatic conditions, such as the Northern Arctic regions, with insignificant volumes of agricultural raw material production, their careful and efficient use is particularly important. This requires waste-free and closed-loop technologies that ensure maximum use of valuable raw materials and prevent damage to the environment from production waste. The subject of the study is to identify factors that directly influence the level and efficiency of bio-resource use for food production and ensuring food security and food independence of the country and regions, especially those with complex natural and climatic conditions for agro-industrial production. The aim is to identify the characteristics and assess the impact of food technologies used in the agro-industrial complex on the level of food self-sufficiency. Studies confirm the insufficiency of the measures taken to transition to deep processing of agricultural raw materials and bio-resources and the need to develop new standards for their industrial processing. The research results were based on a systematic analysis and an economic and statistical method of processing information obtained from the State Statistics Service and executive authorities on the state and problems of the agro-industrial complex.