Global challenges for the agrarian sector of russian economy and its human resources

© 2018. The article analyzes the results of a scientific study on the consequences of global challenges for the agrarian sector of the Russian economy that joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). The main goal of the study is to determine the key role of the staffing of the competitiveness of Russia's agrarian economy in the face of large-scale challenges. The methodological basis of the study includes a comprehensive and systemic approach, analysis and foresight method that explore the globalization of agricultural production. Such factors as the acceleration of the practical introduction of new principles and technological approaches to agriculture, the development of bioeconomics and the problem of import substitution, and the reduction of the share of rural territories and the population are considered. A list of factors limiting the development of agrarian education in Russia is given. The paper gives recommendations on overcoming the growing gap between the content of agrarian vocational education and the needs of the agro-industrial complex in the new conditions