Consumer Cooperatives Research Articles

Agricultural consumer cooperatives in Russia: state and prospects for development

In the Russian Federation, small business cooperation in rural areas plays an important social role, and the state provides great support to the development of cooperation. The paper provides an analysis of the state and areas of development of agricultural consumer cooperatives at the federal and regional levels. The analysis has showed that, against the background of a decrease in the number of agricultural consumer cooperatives, their consolidation and an increase in fixed assets are taking place. The main reasons for the slow development of cooperation in the countryside have been established. The Saratov region is one of the regions that has accumulated many years of successful experience in the agricultural consumer cooperatives activities. The experience of the Soyuz export-oriented supply and sales cooperative of the Saratov region is described. Proposals are given for the development of agricultural cooperatives, including that through the introduction of innovations and state-of-the-art digital resources and advanced training of personnel.

Взыскание задолженности с учредителя (учредителей) некоммерческой организации

The article discusses the types of debt of non-profit organizations. Judicial practice of debt collection of non-profit organization from its founder (founders) is analyzed. The provision according to which from the founder (founders) of the non-profit organizations it is possible to collect judicially only accounts payable is proved: debt for goods or services; for the issued bills; debt on payments in the budget and off-budget payments; for compensation; for the received advances. The conclusion is substantiated that it is possible to recover the debt from the founder (founders) of a non-profit organization only with subsidiary (additional) liability provided for in some forms of non-profit organizations: in private institutions, associations and consumer cooperatives. It is proved that in other forms of non-profit organizations to collect the debt from its founder (founders) is not provided by law.

Production, storage and processing of fruit and vegetable products in the Centrosoyuz consumer cooperative: problems and prospects

Consumer cooperation organizations have extensive experience in harvesting, processing, storing and selling agricultural products. It is the procurement that is the sphere of functioning of consumer cooperatives, which supplies its own stores and processing shops with fresh agricultural products and raw materials, bypassing intermediaries. Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables retain their priority position among other types of purchased products, consumer cooperation has begun to lose its position in their market turnover. One of the reasons for this is the deterioration of the main production assets for processing and storage of fruit and vegetable products. The purpose of the study is to consider the prospects of fruit and vegetable production, the role and opportunities of consumer cooperation in the chain “production-processing–sale”. Methods: induction and deduction, comparison and abstract-logical, monographic and economic-statistical allowed us to solve the problems. The authors studied the scientific works of cooperative theorists published more than a century ago, modern publications, annual statistical collections and reports. The following results were obtained. Consumer cooperation works in the socio-economic space in the interests of low-income segments of the population, residents of remote and hard-to-reach places that are not interesting to retail chains. In such circumstances, the Centrosoyuz should make every effort to make the system as a channel for selling vegetables, fruits and berries attractive to market participants: villagers, farmers, agricultural organizations and cooperatives, processors, and trade. The analysis, conclusions and suggestions will be useful to the management of consumer cooperation organizations in developing long-term programs for the development and modernization of the material and technical base of the procurement industry in order to increase its competitiveness.

A.V. CHAYANOV ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FARMING IN RUSSIA

The article considers the model of development of agricultural enterprises in Russia, proposed by the outstanding agricultural economist A.V. Chayanov. The authors demonstrate the relevance of A.V. Chayanov's ideas for solving modern problems of import substitution and ensuring food security facing domestic agriculture. It is argued that today the socio-economic model of agricultural enterprises in Russia, developed by A.V. Chayanov in the 1920s-1930s, is still extremely relevant and in demand. According to Chayanov, the core of such the model is a family labor-based peasant farm. The authors claim that A.V. Chayanov used a large factual material to prove that the way to increase the efficiency and innovative development of agriculture in Russia lies through the increase and strengthening of farms, their support at the government level, as well as their association into production and consumer cooperatives. A.V. Chayanov strongly opposed the nationalization of agricultural cooperatives, he warned that the state could not directly manage agricultural production. The state can and should create favorable conditions for the development of family labor-based peasant farms and agricultural cooperatives: improve the regulatory framework for agricultural activities, create social infrastructure in rural areas, regulate the taxation of peasant farms and agricultural cooperatives, regulate social and labor relations in agricultural production, implement targeted subsidies in lean years or in the event of emergency circumstances.

ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКАЯ КООПЕРАЦИЯ В ФОРМИРОВАНИИ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННЫХ РЕСУРСОВ

The relevance, novelty and economic significance of consumer cooperation in the formation of food resources in Russia is justified by the huge state significance of the effective use of cooperative resources in the organization of sales of products of personal subsidiary and peasant (farm) farms. The article reveals the economic mission of consumer societies, consumer cooperatives and consumer unions, and reveals their role in saturating the agri-food market with various types of food products, including environmentally friendly forest products: mushrooms, berries, nuts, etc. The author reveals and argues the role of consumer cooperation in the formation of food resources, in the development of small agricultural businesses, agricultural sectors, in improving the efficiency of procurement cooperative enterprises, increasing the competitiveness of domestic agricultural producers, and improving the standard of living in rural areas. In order to improve the efficiency of small businesses, it is advisable to create vertical cooperatives with the participation of producers and processors of agricultural products, determine the development prospects, and fulfill the contractual relations of cooperation partners.

Ways to Increase the Competitiveness of Agricultural Consumer Cooperatives in Modern Conditions

This paper explores the problem of developing agricultural consumer cooperation enterprises and increasing their competitiveness. According to the authors, the development of agricultural cooperation can give an impetus to increasing the potential of rural areas, will solve the food security problem of the Russian Federation, and stimulate the development of national agriculture. The study identifies the main problems that hinder the development of agricultural cooperation in Russia, including the low competitiveness of these enterprises, insufficient knowledge and poor motivation of the population to create a cooperative movement, the lack of effective state support for agricultural producers from the regional and federal authorities, as well as policies pursued by large retailers, which are mainly aimed at increasing imports of agricultural products. The authors propose a comprehensive approach to solve these problems by highlighting several key priority areas. At the same time, the priority task is to increase the competitiveness of consumer cooperation enterprises and their products. The paper analyses the activities of agricultural consumer cooperation enterprises in the Republic of Tatarstan and offers recommendations to improve the competitiveness of consumer societies, in particular, by creating a wholesale distribution and logistics link for cooperation, reducing costs, and optimizing the assortment.

ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКАЯ КООПЕРАЦИЯ В ФОРМИРОВАНИИ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННЫХ РЕСУРСОВ РЕГИОНОВ

The main area of activity of consumer cooperatives is rural areas, where, in cooperation with regional authorities, it solves the problems of forming food resources. Providing the population with food is one of the main tasks of consumer cooperation in the sphere of national security of the state. Consumer societies participate in the formation of the regional market of agri-food products, acting as an integral part of the infrastructure of the regional economy. The volume of purchases of agri-food products by the consumer cooperative is a reliable indicator of the relationship with agricultural producers. In the system of purchasing agricultural products, an important place is occupied by the cooperative store, acting as an Outpost of consumer cooperation. Procurement points of consumer cooperation play a significant role in the development of the regional economy and the formation of food resources. In the regions of Russia, the Centrosoyuz consumer cooperative has its own material and technical resources, a system for harvesting agricultural products, and a network of wholesale and retail trade. Consumer cooperation is a reliable channel for selling agricultural products of small businesses through distribution points and cooperative stores. The activity of consumer cooperatives in the food supply system of the regions fully fits into the solution of the tasks formulated in the Russian food security Doctrine. Consumer cooperation is of particular importance for the development of private subsidiary and peasant (farm) farms. Consumer cooperatives buy agricultural products and raw materials; sell compound feed, fertilizers, varietal seeds of agricultural crops, etc. to the rural population. Procurement organizations of consumer cooperatives (receiving points and cooperative stores) they have extensive experience in purchasing agricultural products from agricultural producers, thus ensuring that small agricultural businesses sell their products, including through retail regional markets, through which 48% of the volume of potatoes, 44% of fruit and vegetable products, almost 40% of meat and poultry, and 20% of eggs are sold.

СЕЛЬСКАЯ КООПЕРАЦИЯ И ЗАНЯТОСТЬ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ В ЛИПЕЦКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ: ВОПРОСЫ РАЗВИТИЯ И ВЗАИМОСВЯЗИ

This paper explores consumer cooperation in rural areas of the Lipetsk region. The aim of the study is to determine the influence and relationship of consumer cooperation and the employment of rural labor resources. As the main research method, the author uses the survey method of its varieties: questionnaire – to collect information suitable for statistical and mathematical processing; interviews – to clarify the perceptions, positions, opinions of survey participants on the issues under study, to receive additional comments from rural residents about their attitude to consumer cooperation. An abstract-logical method was used to analyze all the collected information. The result of the work was the determination of the real state in the development of consumer cooperation in the Lipetsk region; dependence of the level of cooperation development on its support by the regional authorities; demand among the rural population for services provided by consumer cooperatives. A significant influence of cooperation on the employment of rural residents was revealed through the organization of permanent and paid new jobs in cooperatives, as well as through full or partial self-employment in a personal subsidiary or peasant farms. The further development of cooperation and the promotion of employment of rural labor resources through it will depend on the degree and conditions of support of consumer cooperatives by the state. The field of application of the results is regional and local government bodies, which may use the materials obtained in the course of the study, as well as the analysis carried out on their basis and the conclusions drawn, to apply when developing a strategy for the socio-economic development of the region, when developing programs to promote employment in rural areas, when determining measures and directions to support rural consumer cooperation.

Capital structure of COOP group in the Czech Republic

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the capital structure and its determinants in consumer co- operatives in the Czech Republic. Consumer co-operatives are associated in the COOP Group, which is the largest retail network of food stores in the country. This analysis uses quantitative data from the financial statements for the years 2014 to 2018 from the database of information on Czech economic entities Albertina. Financial indicators, regression as well as correlation analysis are all used to analyse the data. This paper reveals that the leverage of the entire group is low, as more than two- thirds of the assets are financed by equity. Internal financing from retained profits is prevalent. From the results of multiple linear regression analysis is apparent that tangibility and total assets turnover both have a positive effect on leverage while liquidity and retained profits negative.

Фінансова стійкість підприємств споживчої кооперації України в системі управління її фінансовими ресурсами

The article is aimed at examining the essence of financial sustainability and financial reliability of consumer cooperation enterprises in Ukraine. The structure, sources of formation, directions of use and efficiency of use of financial resources in consumer cooperation are considered. To study the coefficients of financial sustainability, the division of capital by sources of formation and terms of use is provided. To assess long-term financial sustainability, the following indicators are proposed: working capital level; coefficients of financial independence, long-term financial independence, provision of own circulating capital; level of financial reliability. In the process of analyzing the capital structure of Ukrainian enterprises in general and consumer cooperation in particular, is identified: higher financial sustainability of enterprises and organizations of consumer cooperation; lower dependence on short-term loans and other funds attracted for the short term; higher level of working capital and profitability of activities, despite the financial and economic crisis of 2014-2015. Prospects for further research in this direction are to determine the levels and indicators of financial equilibrium of enterprises, in particular, the balance of positive and negative cash flows by volume, and the optimal combination of the levels of both profitability and risk.

РАЗВИТИЕ КЛАСТЕРИЗАЦИИ В МЯСНОМ ЖИВОТНОВОДСТВЕ: МЕХАНИЗМ ИНТЕГРАЦИИ И КООПЕРАЦИИ ОТРАСЛИ

The main purpose of the work is the development of proposals for improving the integration mechanism and cooperation processes based on clustering in the sectors of meat-animal husbandry of the agro-industrial complex (AIC) of the region. The object of the study is manufacturing, processing, marketing, supplying and servicing enterprises of the sectors of meat-animal husbandry of AIC. In the course of the work, the specifics of elaboration of an optimal mechanism for the development of clustering on the principles of integration and cooperation in the sectors of meat-animal husbandry of AIC were studied. In the present-day market conditions, the current state of integrated and cooperated structures of AIC is analyzed on the basis of reporting of agricultural enterprises of the regions and the Russian Federation as a whole. The difficulties of organizing the interaction of economic entities of AIC with research, educational, financial, credit and insurance institutions are revealed. On the basis of statistical-economic, monographic, abstract-logical and computational-constructive methods, organizational and economic conditions for the formation of the mechanism underlying the clustering of integration and cooperation processes in the meat-product sub- complex of the regions of Russian Federation are investigated. A structural model of a meat- product cluster, based on protocluster structures identified in the AIC and promising enterprises of the regions, is proposed. In particular, the formation of Regional Cluster Development Centers, Regional slaughter-and-purchasing stations, Territorial Hybrid-breeding centers on the base of potential clusters is proposed. Calculated and justified reduction in the production cost and final price of meat products in the retail markets of the regions of the Russian Federation is accepted the key parameter of the socio-economic efficiency of the proposed mechanism. The scope of application of the developments: management bodies of the agro-industrial complex, heads of personal subsidiary and peasant (private) farms, boards of production and consumer cooperatives, management of agricultural, processing, supplying and servicing enterprises.

К ВОПРОСУ РАЗВИТИЯ КОЛЛЕКТИВНЫХ ФОРМ ХОЗЯЙСТВОВАНИЯ В САМАРСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ: ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ КООПЕРАТИВНЫХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ

The concept of sustainable development of rural areas has set the tasks for the development of collective forms of farming in the countryside, the main of which are cooperatives. Developed agricultural cooperation is the most important mechanism for increasing production efficiency and social stability in society. It allows providing the population with high-quality food products of its own production, increasing the level of their income. However, activities of cooperative organizations are not covered fully enough, and activities themselves are poorly developed. Samara Oblast is one of the regions with a low development of supply, marketing and processing cooperation. At the same time, credit cooperation is developing quite actively here. The region’s administration pays attention to the development of cooperative organizations. Support is provided mainly in the form of subsidizing interest rates on loans under the State Development Program. Despite the measures taken by the regional government bodies, in recent years the region has seen a decrease in the number of agricultural consumer cooperatives. For more than twenty years, Russian agricultural cooperation has been developing in market conditions. This development is not going without problems. Heads of agricultural enterprises and of municipal districts understand that it is impossible to stabilize and increase the efficiency of the agricultural sector, to develop rural areas without the development of production cooperative organizations. Empirical material was obtained through surveying in order to form certain ideas about the rural residents’ awareness of the activities of cooperative organizations, of their involvement in the social life of the village and in the increasing of the population’s social activity. The results of the survey show that the respondents have little understanding of the activities of agricultural cooperatives. When asked about the awareness of their activities, every third respondent answered that he had heard something about cooperatives of the 1990s. For all the difficulties, the cooperative movement in the countryside is a condition for the successful promotion of food products produced by small forms of farming. Agricultural cooperation can become a serious force not only in achieving the individual goals of consumers, workers of the consumer cooperation system and shareholders, in strengthening their personal well-being and social security, but also in implementing national tasks, priority national projects, targeted programs, and ensuring the population’s employment.

УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ УПРАВЛІННЯ МАРКЕТИНГОВОЮ ДІЯЛЬНІСТЮ ПТАХІВНИЧИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ

The article systematizes theoretical approaches to defining the essence and role of marketing poultry products. Emphasis is placed on ensuring the protection of the interests of domestic producers, as well as increasing food production and improving their quality. The experience of organizing the marketing of producers of poultry products and its use in domestic practice is summarized. Peculiarities of marketing management of poultry enterprises are determined. Marketing research has been conducted to identify the influence of factors on the formation of consumer preferences when buying turkey meat. The main tasks of selling poultry products are indicated, namely: determining the volume and quality of sold products; control over the implementation of supply plans and contractual obligations for the sale of products; control over product sales prices; calculation of the commercial cost of goods sold; determination of revenue and financial results from the sale of poultry products. It is noted that production volumes should be functionally dependent on consumer demand. The study identified the marketing strategy of the company, adapted to the market of poultry products and proved that the marketing of poultry products should provide not only the optimal volume and quality of products, but also its diversity and availability at affordable prices. Measures to increase the efficiency of marketing management are substantiated, namely: increasing the production of refrigerated products and entering directly into the consumer market - in retail chains, consumer cooperation and further expansion of branded stores; increase of deliveries of production to areas of area and diversification of business on a vertical; creation of own fast food network of this enterprise. It was found that the most effective and promising is a competitive marketing strategy, which aims to constantly increase the market share of enterprises and will include increasing sales by improving communication policy, development of sales network and expanding the range of poultry products. For poultry enterprises, this is an additional opportunity to increase margins and increase sales.

АКТУАЛЬНІ ПИТАННЯ ПРАВОВОГО РЕЖИМУ МАЙНА КООПЕРАТИВІВ

The modern development of Ukrainian society is characterized by a variety of organizational and legal forms of business, including cooperatives, which are part of a unified economic complex of the country along with other participants in economic relations. The aim of the article is to analyze the problems of economic and legal regulation of the legal regime of property of cooperatives and justify the ways to resolve them. Realization of the set purpose provides the decision of a number of problems, such as: 1) research of features of share fund, indivisible fund, reserve and special funds of cooperative; 2) analysis of problems of legal provision of the procedure for the formation and use of property of cooperatives and 3) justification of directions for improving the legal regime of property of cooperative and development of amendments to the legislation on cooperation. Methodology. The application of methods of comparative legal research, system and structural-functional analysis allowed to justify the feasibility of optimizing the legal regulation of property relations in production, service and consumer cooperatives. Scientific novelty. The article considers the features of the legal regime of property of different types of cooperatives in modern economic conditions. The shortcomings in legal regulation of the property funds of cooperatives are analyzed and changes to the current legislation on cooperation are proposed. In conclusion, the article emphasizes that the improving the legal regime of property of cooperatives will eliminate some shortcomings of the current legislation on cooperation and will serve for effective law enforcement in this area of legal relations. In particular, it is proposed in the Law “On Cooperation” to establish that the shares, taking into account contributions to the reserve and special funds, are personalized and in total determine the common part of the cooperative member in the property of the cooperative. The person has the right to receive his common part in cash in case of withdrawal or exclusion from the cooperative, unless otherwise provided by the charter of the cooperative. The term and other conditions for the cooperative member to receive common part shall be established by the cooperative's charter.

Intersubjective principle of innovative development of regions management

Sustainable development of regions should ultimately lead to the renewal and expansion of consumer goods. Their quality influence the growth of living standard. In modern society, the main emphasis is placed on the emergence of innovations in the production process. In this regard, innovative development is seen as a means to make profit. At the same time, the connection with the broad interests of consumers is lost. Attention is turned to the increasing of the ability of goods to perform the purpose they were created for. Comprehensive formulation of tasks for business on the part of consumers should become the primary source for the goods design and the direction of technological development of production. In this regard, a new understanding of innovative idea as a result of the joint resolution of a problem situation by actors who are aware of themselves within the problem situation is proposed. The formation of territorial consumer cooperatives of the new type as a means of realizing a subject-oriented approach to innovative development is proposed.

Методические подходы к оценке эффективности некоммерческих объединений сельскохозяйственных товаропроизводителей

The article analyzes modern methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness of the creation and functioning of non-profit associations of agricultural producers. Considerable attention is paid to the critical understanding of the compliance of legislative norms and rules, scientific developments with the practical provisions of the work of agricultural consumer cooperatives.

INSTITUTION OF CREDIT CONSUMER COOPERATION: RESTRICTIONS AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

The article provides a general description of the essence and specific characteristics of consumer credit cooperatives (CCC) as well as the assessment of degree of relevance of the issue of CCC development in the context of increasing financial accessibility in different territories of the Russian Federation. The author defines the scale of activity of credit consumer cooperation in relation to the microfinance sector, the savings and loan market of the Russian Federation as a whole and in relation to the sector of credit cooperation in other countries, including the percentage of involvement of the population of different countries in the processes of mutual financial assistance of the CCC. The historical context of the development of credit consumer cooperation in Russia is also briefly reviewed, and its quantitative parameters in the past and current periods are compared. The author determines the place of the modern institution of the CCC in the financial market of the Russian Federation in the context of the concepts of mass and niche, taking into account the specifics of the target audience and the predominant area of activity of credit cooperatives. In this regard, the following limitations and potential advantages are highlighted. The research has resulted in proposals to increase the competitiveness of the CCC in the savings and loan market. These suggestions are made in order to transform the sector towards a growth trend through the preservation of the key mechanics of the traditional service of credit cooperatives, which determine a high degree of loyalty of shareholders. The author’s ideas are combined with the addition of the practice of CCC activities with a set of modern functions, the provision of which is conditioned by both the cooperatives technological platforms and the form of organizing key internal processes. The final conclusion of the present work is that it is the implementation of such a dual strategy that will increase the competitiveness of the institution of credit cooperation and will ensure a return to the trend of its quantitative growth and qualitative development.

ИСТОРИЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ АКМОЛИНСКОГО УЕЗДНОГО СОЮЗА КООПЕРАТИВОВ (1917–1922 гг.)

Based on the analysis of the previously unused archival sources and research works on the history of Russian cooperation, the main areas of the activities of the Akmola District Union of Cooperatives in 1917–1922 are studied and generalized. In terms of methodology, the study is based on the works of ideologists of Russian cooperation (M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky, V.F. Totomianets, A.V. Chayanov, and others) and the original concepts they developed. The article analyzes the activities of the Union of Cooperatives of a particular micro-region: the number of employees, organizational structure and management, organization of industrial production, financial and social policies, cultural and educational activities. The author substantiates the role of the District Union of Cooperatives in the development of economic relations in the region and in the district peasant farms’ entry into the all-Russian market. Despite the difficult political circumstances and the relatively short period of existence (from August 1917 to the end of 1922), the Akmola District Union of Cooperatives became an economic and organizational center, contributed to the establishment and development of the consumer cooperation system not only in the district, but also in the region: it initiated the establishment of the regional Union of Steppe Cooperatives. In the conditions of the territorial remoteness from industrial centers and the underdeveloped transport infrastructure, the District Union of Cooperatives significantly facilitated and promoted the production activities of the peasants of the region connecting them with the market, expedited the involvement of Kazakh farms in the regional economy. The Union carried out an active social policy and diversified cultural and educational work, allocated significant amounts from its profits to the development of education in the district. According to the author, the activities of the Akmola District Union of Cooperatives can be considered as an integral part of the national cooperative movement, and its success was due to the application of the allRussian experience during the heyday of cooperation in the country.

ПРОДАЖ АЛКОГОЛЬНИХ ВИРОБІВ В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ СЕЛІ В ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ 1940-х – 1980-х РОКАХ (НА МАТЕРІАЛАХ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ УКООПСПІЛКИ)

Various economic, social and cultural aspects of the sale, production and consumption of alcoholic beverages remain little studied today in Ukrainian modern historiography. On the other hand, foreign historiography, in particular English-speaking, has advanced much further in this area. The article makes an attempt, on the basis of previously unpublished archival sources, to reveal the features and study the socio-economic aspects of the sale of alcoholic beverages in the Ukrainian village through the retail trade network of consumer cooperatives of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukoopspilka) in the second half of the 1940s – 1980s. Analyzed the annual reports of the Ukoopspilka and determined the specific weight of vodka and alcoholic beverages in the structure of retail turnover in certain years of the study period. Disparity was revealed in the distribution of alcoholic beverages funds between the trading systems of the city and the village. The article highlights the influence of the «anti-alcohol laws» of 1958 and 1972 on the trade and production activities of consumer cooperation in Ukraine. As a result of the study, it was found that alcohol during the entire study period constituted a significant part of the trade and public catering turnover in rural areas. The discriminatory system of distribution of commodity funds sent the vast majority of high-quality alcohol (grape wines, liqueurs, aged cognacs, etc.) to the state trade system, that is, to cities and industrial centers, but mainly vodka and low-quality fruit and berry wines came to the countryside. The availability of alcohol, as well as some customs and the lack of a variety of leisure activities in the countryside led to an increase in the alcoholization of the population.

Principles of development of agricultural consumer cooperation in the agricultural sector of Russia

The authors conducted research to identify and systematize the principles of development of agricultural consumer cooperation in the agricultural sector of Russia. In particular, it was noted that the agrarian reforms, the processes of integration of the country into the global economic space and the struggle for leadership in the global agri-food market led to the emergence of new forms of economic interaction, including agricultural cooperation, and forced a new perception of the principles of development of agricultural producers traditional for the socialist economy. In this paper, special attention is paid to the principles of state regulation of the activities of small businesses. Within the framework of the presented scientific development, the above-mentioned principles were refined taking into account the new economic reality and supplemented with the principles of the project approach in management. The proposed new managerial tools of state regulation of the agricultural sector based on the principles of the design approach will help to focus the efforts of governments at all levels to achieve concrete results in the framework of the National project "Creation of system of support of farmers and development of agricultural consumer cooperation", but also transfer to small businesses in the advanced level of development.