The state and prospects of development of the agricultural sector through the prism of entrepreneurship

Abstract

The agricultural sector is an essential strategic branch of Ukraine's national economy and guarantees our country's food security and self-sufficiency. The modern agro-industrial complex is an essential sector of Ukraine's economy. The agricultural sector forms food security, realizes economic, ecological, and energy security within certain limits, guarantees the development of technologically related branches of the national economy, and creates socio-economic conditions for developing rural areas. The article describes the current state of Ukraine's agro-industrial complex and its development features. The significance of agriculture for the national economy is determined. Trends in the development of rural areas, employment, and unemployment, and the influence of internal and external factors on these processes are analyzed. The problems of material and technical, investment, and financial support of the agro-industrial complex have been identified. It is shown that the decline of the agro-industrial complex affects the processing industry. The prerequisites for developing Ukraine's agrarian sector in the conditions of market formation and ways of solving strategic issues of ensuring national food security and competitiveness of the agro-food complex on domestic and foreign markets are highlighted. It is proposed to continue improving the mechanisms of co-financing of key economic measures and programs aimed at the development of agriculture, considering the solution of the national tasks of creating a single economic space and equalizing the living conditions of the rural population. One of the strategic directions for developing the agro-industrial complex should be state support for farmers. The agricultural sector has the potential to double the production of agricultural products. A prerequisite for the effective development of the agro-industrial complex is ensuring adaptation to changes in the external environment, which is possible only based on a strategic approach to managing the agro-industrial complex. Keywords: agriculture, market, potential, management, agro-industrial complex, agro-industrial cluster, agro-industrial integration.