THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL ECONOMY: CONVERGENCE TO EUROPEAN MODERNITY

Abstract

Urgency of the research. Integration of Ukraine into European Area actualizes a necessity to improve efficiency of management in all spheres of national economic system, including its important element – rural economy. Target setting. The authors prove feasibility of implementing the European principles of development of rural economy from the perspective of ensuring overall economic growth of Ukraine, justify the need of improvement of national legislative and institutional support for the concept of rural development. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The issue of rural development in the system of European integration of Ukraine is deeply studied by O. Borodina, O. Popov, I. Prokopa [1] T. Ostashko [2], Y. Malko [3], L. Nikitina [4], A. Uzhva [5], R. Hine, K. Ingersent, A. Rayner [6] and others. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. The determinants of formation, possibilities and peculiarities of adaptation as well as strategic guidelines for development of rural economy in Ukraine in the context of the gradual implementation of European experience are not defined at the theoretical and methodological level. The research objective.To consider the main provisions of the Strategy for the development of the agrarian sector of Ukraine for the period up to 2020. To develop a modern model of the formation and strategic forecast for the development of rural economy in Ukraine taking into consideration the peculiarities of the policy of rural development, defining its key positions with the substantiation of the determinants of implementation. The statement of basic materials. The model defines the main priorities and objectives of development via convergence with European modernity, in particular by providing proper conditions of life of the population in rural areas, improving the quality of human capital, the efficiency of agricultural production, enhancement of participation of rural society in it, and preservation of environment. Conclusions. All this emphasizes feasibility and effectiveness of the implementation of the basic principles of the European practice and realization of the provisions of domestic legislative and institutional support of rural development.