Ukrainian Agricultural Market Regulation Tools: Their Effectiveness and Directions of Improvement

Abstract

In the conditions of considerable uncertainty of prices in agricultural markets, there is a need to substantiate the improvement of approaches to substantiating the optimal combination of market levers with the elements of state regulation. In domestic practice, a wide arsenal of regulatory instruments is used, the lack of systematic and timely introduction of them, proper financial support, transparent economic rules of the game, partnership decency between the state and commodity producers have led to distrust of producers, and the resultant economic returns from these mechanisms were far from the expected results. The paper argues that the priority directions of the state regulation of the agri-food industry of Ukraine support the development of small forms of management – family farms, stimulation of organic production development, agricultural producers compliance with European requirements on quality and safety of food, ensuring the competitiveness of agri-food chains on the basis of the use of grain in the production of livestock products on the domestic market.