CHIMITDORZHIEVA EKATERINA Ts.

Figures on employment in agricultural organizations show that the number of labor resources occupying the positions of top managers and specialists has decreased by more than two times. First of all, the human resource potential of the agricultural sector is filled by involving the students engaged in agrarian specialties. Analysis of the number of students at universities in the areas of «Agriculture and Agricultural Sciences» for the period from 2016 to 2020 shows that the EGD(S) (enlarged group of directions and specialties) 35.00.00 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery growth rate was 7.7 %, for EGD(S) 36.00.00 Veterinary and Zootechnics growth rate was 4.3 %, and in general, for the entire branch of science it was 6.1 %. The growth rate of students is significantly influenced by the results of the regional policy in the field of agriculture The fixed effects model shows that the growth rate of the number of students is not affected by the growth rate of gross agricultural value added in the region. The key factor is the number of enterprises operating in agricultural production, while the importance of this factor in the current period is more significant than in the previous one. The growth rate of the number of students is higher, when the growth rate of agricultural enterprises in the region lowers.