AGRICULTURAL FARMS OPERATIONS IN PRESENT BUSINESS CONDITIONS

Abstract

The role of farms is too important today in today’s agricultural sector; therefore it is necessary to pay attention to those problems which today have this sector both in Ukraine and around the world space. In Ukraine, the development of farms is significantly influenced by several factors: the imperfection of the legal framework; weak support by state and regional entities; poor development of distribution networks, processing and storage of agricultural products; lack of organizational and economic activities methodological support of farms. During the quarantine, they suffer from an acute investment crisis. Today during quarantine measures actions, scientific research on these issues is limited but in the specialized publications there are some publications of practitioners on the farm activities in conditions of quarantine, explanation of state bodies. Farms are more affected by quarantine and the economic crisis therefore; the state has developed a strategy for the development of the agricultural sector for 2021–2023 and approved forms of providing financial support for farm development. The main areas for the support and development of private farming are the formation of agricultural policy by the analogy with Economic cooperation and development countries, reduction of investment risks, counteraction agricultural raiding in the seizure of agricultural land, development preferential insurance system, the formation of farmers ability to operate independently by training qualified personnel in the agriculture sector, able to carry out the activities on a family basis, due to technical re-equipment the general farms’ efficiency will increase. Creating conditions for cooperative and integration formations will also allow farmers to increase their activities profitability, enter new markets and increase volume revenues in foreign currency from agricultural products export, and incentives agricultural cooperation will give a new impetus to the development processing of raw materials in Ukraine, not abroad. The creation of voluntary associations of farms will protect farms in competition with monopolies for agricultural products markets.