CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF POST-WAR TRANSFORMATIONS OF AGRICULTURE OF UKRAINE

Abstract

Stable and efficient functioning of agriculture has gained priority importance in ensuring food independence of the country. However, the Russian military invasion and temporary occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine caused significant destructive consequences in the agricultural sphere. The purpose of the article is to analyze the state of agriculture during the war and outline the structural transformation during the post-war reconstruction period. The task is outlined by determining the amount of losses in the agricultural sector from Russian aggression and choosing the vector of transformational shifts in its post-war reconstruction and further development. The empirical base includes information from the Institute of Agrarian Economics, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, scientific and review publications. Theoretical and applied processing of information is based on tabular methods ‒ to build series of production dynamics and outline agricultural production management systems; methods of system analysis ‒ for comparative characteristics of the functioning of the individual and corporate sectors of agriculture, identifying the causes and consequences of the problematic situation in the industry; abstraction ‒ to highlight the most essential signs, properties and connections that characterize the development of the agricultural sector; substantiation and generalization ‒ to establish the regularities of the further development of agriculture. As a result of the study, it was established that the agricultural sector of Ukraine's economy suffered significant losses from hostilities. The advantages and disadvantages of the individual and corporate sectors of agriculture are substantiated. The advantages and disadvantages of the corporate sector or wholesale agrarian business in Ukraine are presented on the example of the functioning of agricultural holdings. The advantages of the individual sector in ensuring the domestic consumer market have been proven. The ways of post-war reconstruction of agriculture based on the principles of farming in accordance with the recommendations of the UN and the common agrarian policy of the European Union are substantiated.