Legal measures of state support of private peasant households in modern realities

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the legal foundations of state support of private peasant farms, as well as legislative novelties in this area. The article analyzes the key problems in the activity of private peasant households and examines the main directions of its improvement thanks to the mechanism of state support. The main forms of state support for such households and individuals managing them are defined. Has been proven the key role of private peasant households in ensuring the food safety of the state. The category of personal peasant farming is specified as an alternative form of agribusiness, economic activity carried out without the creation of a legal entity by a natural person individually or by persons who are in a family or family relationship and live together, with the aim of satisfying personal needs through the production, processing and consumption of agricultural products, their sale surpluses and services using the property of a personal farm, including in the field of rural green tourism. It is argued that for the proper functioning of the institute of personal peasant farming, an important stage is support from the state, both from a financial point of view and from a legislative point of view. In the article has beeb assumed that private peasant farms in Ukraine should be developed with active financial and socio-economic support from state authorities and local self-government bodies, taking into account the Development Strategies of Territorial Communities. It is emphasized that it is thanks to the functioning of these farms that the realization of the principle of balance of public and private interests in the agrarian sphere and agrarian protectionism is ensured. The methodology of the study of the peculiarities of the state support of personal peasant households is based on the provisions of the general scientific dialectical method of scientific knowledge. In addition, historical-legal, hermeneutic, formal-legal and formal-logical scientific methods are used in the article for a more thorough disclosure of the problem.