Agricultural Production Technologies Research Articles

Pemanfaatan Tepung Tulang Ikan untuk Bidang Pertanian oleh Masyarakat Desa Tanjung Keramat Gorontalo

Tuna fish bones are by - product s or waste from fisheries. Not many people have applied tuna fishbone in agriculture. In fact , tuna fish bones can be used as organic fertilizer and animal feed which can be processed into bone meal. Ac c ording to this condition, the Community Service Team from the Agricultural Product Technology Study Program took the initiative to assist the community to take advantage of it. This activity is carried out in Tanjung Kramat Village, which is one of the largest tuna producing areas in Gorontalo. This activity includes material presentation, discussion and demonstration of making fish bone meal. From the results of these activities, enthusiasm from the community and local village officials can be seen to develop it into organic fertilizer and animal feed.

Energy Saving in Lighting Technologies of Agricultural Production

With the continue increase prices of the electricity while the financing of agriculture is remaining the same, agricultural production is increasingly difficult to satisfy the needs of the population with food production. Under these conditions the role of energy-saving technologies in agricultural production is relevant. In particular, very important is the use of optical radiation for irradiation of dairy herds, poultry and plants. In this article, methods of energy saving are presented, identified on the basis of long-term theoretical and practical research of the authors and their graduate students. The reliability of this research is confirmed by defended theses, the theoretical and practical achievements, the protocols of experiments, acts of economic and factory tests. The authors hope that this information will provide practical assistance to numerous small farms in our country while choosing energy-saving lighting technologies.

Impacts of policy cognition on low-carbon agricultural technology adoption of farmers.

Agriculture is the second-largest source of carbon emission, which is not only a burden for the government to achieve the goal of carbon emission reduction but also is a huge threat to food security and the sustainable development of agriculture. Therefore, how to quantify the impacts of policy cognition of farmers on their low-carbon agricultural technology adoption is of great importance in China. Based on the survey data from 704 farmers in Jianghan Plain, China, we used the entropy method and Heckman sample selection model to quantify the effects of farmers' policy cognitive degree on their low-carbon agricultural technology adoption behavior and adoption intensity. The results showed that the level of farmers' cognition of low carbon policy should be improved. The average level of farmers' policy cognition was only 1.89. The adoption rate of single low-risk, high-efficiency low-carbon agricultural production technology by farmers was relatively high, but that of multiple low-carbon agricultural technologies was low, with an average adoption intensity of only 1.62. Policy cognition could effectively promote farmers' low-carbon agricultural technology adoption behavior and adoption intensity. Farmers' policy cognition had a significant positive impacts on their low carbon agricultural technology adoption behavior and adoption intensity. Local government should take more effective supporting measures, including strengthening the propaganda, enhancing the training and improving the subsidy standard of low-carbon agricultural technology, to improve farmers' low-carbon agricultural technology adoption intensity. Such strategy would help achieve the target of carbon emission reduction and sustainable development of agriculture.

Epistemological Foundations of the Digital Technologies Used in Agriculture in Siberia

The authors substantiated the necessity for an epistemological approach to determining the main messages in the digitalization application by agricultural producers, taking into account natural and climatic, commodity-production and social factors.(Research purpose) To formulate the main messages when applying digital technologies in agricultural production, which determine epistemological approaches to their systematic use and allow increasing grain production by 2-3 times on the example of JSC Sokolovo.(Materials and methods) The authors applied a system analysis to agricultural production objects as to information field when describing them in the information space.(Results and discussion) The authors found that agricultural production objects were in an objective multiplicative relationship. Based on the results, a communication scheme between objects in agro-industrial production, reflecting their dialectical commonality was developed. They presented production objects as a resource characterized by a certain set of parameters and values. They showed the multiplicative nature of the resources relationship, describing the nature of the dependence by the method of passage to the limit. The authors identified general information requirements for solving the agriculture problems, crop production and for the means of processing this information in the amount of more than 2 petaflops. They established the necessary resolution for managing technical processes - less than 3 centimeters.(Conclusions) The authors proposed a paradigm for information support of technological processes in agricultural production. They confirmed the legitimacy of this approach to the paradigm formation by creating more than 20 databases. They gave examples of increasing the efficiency of grain production in the Novosibirsk region. The epistemological principles were based on the formulated six messages of information digital technologies, which made it possible to use them in more than 247 520 different combinations and apply to the whole farms variety, depending on their capabilities and desires.

Addressing the Differences in Farmers’ Willingness and Behavior Regarding Developing Green Agriculture—A Case Study in Xichuan County, China

The development of green agriculture is an effective way to realize the sustainable development of agriculture, which is of great significance for guaranteeing national food security, improving the supply ability of agricultural products, promoting the healthy development of cultivated land, and realizing green development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has proposed the establishment of a green-development-oriented agricultural support system, which intends to reverse the worsening of the agricultural ecological environment; however, in 2019, the input of agricultural chemical fertilizer still exceeded the international limit of the safe application of chemical fertilizer. In recent years, agriculture has surpassed industry to become the largest non-point source pollution industry in China, seriously affecting the rural ecological civilization construction and the advancement of green sustainable development coordinated. To analyze the key factors affecting the development of green agriculture, in this study, logistic binary regression analysis was used to measure the main factors affecting farmers’ green agricultural production willingness and green agricultural production behavior. The results show that a farmer’s age, land type, compensation for land transfer, technical service organization, related training, and economic and technological subsidies had significant effects on their green agricultural production willingness. The age of farmers, number of staff, risk of green agricultural production technology, technical service organization, and economic and technological subsidies were shown to have significant effects on the green agricultural production behavior of farmers, where the different factors influenced the behavior to different degrees. Based on the above findings, it is suggested that the Chinese government should help farmers to carry out agricultural green transformation through technical training, policy popularization, economic subsidies, and educational support.

Research on the impact of agricultural green production on farmers' technical efficiency: evidence from China.

Agricultural green production (AGP) and efficiency improvement of smallholders' management are the objective requirements for the development of China's modernized agriculture and the understanding of the rural vitalization strategy. Based on field survey data of 582 rice farmers in Shaanxi Province, this study used the Logit model to analyze the determinants of smallholders' adoption of agricultural green production technology (AGPT) and used the propensity score matching (PSM) method to measure the effect of AGPT on the technical efficiency (TE) of rice production and the heterogeneity of this influence among smallholders. Results showed that the AGPT adoption rate and the mean of rice production TE were 15.1% and 0.312, both had a lot of room for improvement. Furthermore, it was found that household's characteristics, family characteristics, agricultural management characteristics, social characteristics, and cognitive characteristics significantly affect smallholders' AGPT adoption, and the AGPT adoption significantly increased the TE of rice production by 18.8 to 24.5%. Besides, farmers with older age, less education, more specialized planting, more fragmented land, and more off-farm employment adopting AGPT could significantly improve the TE; the increase proportion was 29.8%, 29.5%, 21.3%, 27.2%, and 16.8%. The study also showed that the AGPT could not significantly increase the rice output value of smallholders. In addition, considering the endogeneity problem caused by sample selection bias, the study re-estimated using the endogenous transformation regression (ESR) model which showed that the promotion of AGPT to TE was still robust. The study puts forward policy recommendations on how to further promote the adoption of AGPT and improve the TE by farmers.

Цифрландыру технологиялары негізіндегі Қазақстан өңірлеріндегі инновациялық белсенділік

The innovation process is investigated as a continuous flow of transformation of specific technical ideas on the basis of scientific developments of new technologies, introduction of them in production. The issues of introduction of innovations in the regions, a comprehensive study of practical aspects of the use of digital technologies in agricultural sectors are considered. It was revealed that the expansion of distribution of the latest technical means and IT developments in agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan will contribute to the increase in labor productivity, increased contribution of agricultural sector to the country's GDP, and increase in potential for export of agricultural products to the world markets. It is shown that development of agro-industrial production is ensured by automated monitoring of cultivated land, facilitating digitalization process, and creating an information platform for monitoring safety on food market. A domestic development is presented, which is an information system for managing agricultural enterprise "AgroStream", which is known abroad, which has a large volume of technologies, varieties, and crops in order to determine the highest performance of domestic product, analyzes data, providing them to the users in convenient form, to make management decisions. It has been determined that providing producers of agricultural products with necessary information can reduce costs and reduce shortage of skilled labor. Entrepreneurs need to produce more food with fewer resources, so significant breakthrough in agricultural production technology is needed. The main task of digitalization is to significantly simplify all processes in farmers' activities from production to marketing of goods.

Evaluation and Scenario Prediction of the Water-Energy-Food System Security in the Yangtze River Economic Belt Based on the RF-Haken Model

As an important agricultural production area in China, the Yangtze River Economic Belt has a large amount of water resources and rich types of energy. Water and energy resources are the supporting basis of food production, and the production and use of energy also need to consume a large amount of water resources. The three affect each other and are interdependent. Paying attention to the synergistic security of water-energy-food system in the Yangtze River Economic Belt is important for regional economic development. This paper uses the pressure-state-response (PSR) model and selects 27 indicators to build an evaluation index system of the regional water-energy-food system. We use the random forest model to evaluate the security level of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2008 to 2017, and the Haken model is employed to identify the driving factors that dominate the synergistic evolution of the system. Then we take the identified factors as the key control variables under each scenario and launch a scenario simulation of some provinces in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in 2025. The results show that due to the improvement of water and energy utilization efficiency and the advancement of agricultural production technology, the level of water-energy-food security in the Yangtze River Economic Belt improved significantly from 2008 to 2017. Each province performs differently in different subsystems, with water resources security being better in the upper reaches and Zhejiang and Shanghai in the lower reaches, and food security being better in the middle and lower reaches. The level of energy security is high in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou in the upper reaches and Shanghai and Anhui in the lower reaches. According to the results of scenario prediction for Jiangsu Province and Hubei Province in 2025, implementing moderate management in accordance with current management objectives can increase the overall security of the system to level 4. The two provinces should focus on controlling water resources and energy consumption and improving the utilization efficiency of water and energy in agricultural production.

Western technologies in agricultural production and food processing in the late XIX – early XX centuries and the Russian agroindustrial mentality

The goal of this article is to reveal the impact of Western technologies in agricultural production and food processing in the late XIX – early XX centuries upon the formation and development of agroindustrial mentality of all participants of the agricultural market, as well as government structures, officials, and public figures. The object of this research is the scientific ideas, technological and technical innovations, and inventions that came to Russia during the post-reform period and the response of the participants of agricultural and food processing market to them. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that this article is firs in the Russian history to analyze the key factors, methods and techniques of implementing Western technologies and technological improvements in the Russian agrarian field in the late XIX – early XX centuries.  The use of the main forms and methods of implementation of Western technologies at the current stage of development of the entire agroindustrial integration in the Russian Federation determines the practical value of this research. The author determines the problematic spots in the area of modern Western technologies and their impact upon the Russian agriculture and food processing industry.

Quality of red tuna (Yellowfin tuna) fishball, white oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) on different types of packaging and storage time

This study aims to determine the effect of packaging type and storage time on the quality of red tuna (Yellowfin tuna) white oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) meatball. This research was conducted at the Laboratory of Agricultural Product Technology, Ekasakti University, Padang, Laboratory of Instrumentation and Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Andalas University. The study was conducted for 2 months, from April to May 2019, using a Factorial Completely Randomized Design (CRD) consisting of 2 factors with 3 replications. The first factor is the type of packaging (without packaging, styrofoam packaging, wrap packaging), and the second factor is the storage time (0 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours). Observation data were analyzed using ANOVA with the F test followed by the Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT) at the 5% real level. The results showed that the type of packaging with storage time had a very significant effect on moisture content and protein content and had no significant effect on ash content. The type of packaging and storage time for the best white oyster mushroom tuna red tetelan meatball based on water content, ash content, protein content, ALT, Salmonella sp and Organoleptic bacterial contamination is the best use of Wrap packaging with a storage time of 12 hours.

Improving the efficiency of using Russian soil resources

Russia’s soil is degraded by simplified agricultural production technologies, lack of fertilizers, plant protection products, irrigation, improper use of crop rotations or their absence, and weakening of state control over the use and protection of agricultural land. There is a depletion of available land. The average annual deficit of humus in the arable layer is 0.52 tons per hectare, and the applied doses of organic and mineral fertilizers do not compensate for the loss of soil nutrients. 46% of the surveyed area is characterized by a low content of organic substances. The renewal and preservation of fertility of Russia’s soils suitable for vegetable growing is possible in a scientifically sound combination of organic and mineral fertilizers, use of crop rotations with inclusion of break crops and perennial grasses, technological, agricultural and technical parameters of the technology, the organization of control over use and protection of agricultural land from the state and regional authorities.

SDG Implementation through Technology? Governing Food-Water-Technology Nexus Challenges in Urban Agriculture

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasizes the importance of technology as a pillar for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Technology innovation promises benefits especially for the implementation of SDG 2 to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. Contributing to current debates on SDG implementation, technology innovation, and cross-sectoral governance, we argue that technology innovation carries both the potential to contribute to global goal implementation and the risk of posing new governance challenges. Applying a food-water-technology nexus (FWTN) perspective, we conduct a case study on an emerging technology in urban agricultural production in Germany. The technology connects the wastewater treatment system and the agricultural production system and projects the transformation of a conventional sewage treatment plant into a ‘NEWtrient®-Center,’ which draws the essential resources for urban hydroponic plant cultivation from municipal wastewater. Building on qualitative and participatory research methods, the study provides deeper insights into the governance implications of FWTN issues stemming from the emerging technology. The analysis shows that this technology has the potential to facilitate SDG implementation, but simultaneously fuels new sector interlinkages between water and food and policy demands that substantiate the need for more integrated policymaking to ensure the smart use of technology to reach the SDGs.

Оцінка біологічної ефективності перспективних домінантних штамів бактерій ризосфери ячменю ярого

An important task of modern agricultural production is the creation of new environmentally friendly agricultural technologies aimed at increasing the productivity of crops. Spring barley is an important forage crop, which occupies a significant place in the balance of concentrated feed. Therefore, our study is quite relevant today, given the trend towards the transition to organic farming and the development of biological fertilizers. The aim of the study was to determine the efficiency of inoculation with dominant strains of rhizosphere bacteria Phyllobacterium ifriqiyense 1 and Bacillus methylotrophicus 10 seeds of spring barley and physiological parameters of growth and development of the culture in model conditions. The task of the study is to determine the titer of viable bacteria, exposure of spring barley seeds in bacterial suspension, accounting for the growth of spring barley plants and fixing its biometric parameters after bacterization; determination of physiological parameters of plant growth and development in model conditions. Research methods – microbiological (direct calculation of viable colony-forming units using Goryaev's camera). Indicators of photosynthetic activity of the leaf were determined using the biophysical method of induction of chlorophyll fluorescence by a portable device "Floratest". The results of studies – the strain Phyllobacterium ifriqiyense 1 showed the maximum biological effect on the growth of test culture of barley (including dilution of culture fluid). It was found that treatment with bacterial suspensions of Phyllobacterium ifriqiyense 1 and Bacillus methylotrophicus 10 promotes the activation of the functions of the photosynthetic apparatus of barley plants in the laboratory. Prospects – rhizosphere microorganisms are important components of the environment in the early stages of ontogeny of cereals, so the use of dominant inoculating bacteria has scientific and practical significance in the optimization of agricultural production technologies.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF FEED CHEMICAL COMPOSITION WITH THE ADDITION OF DRAGON FRUIT SKIN FLOUR (Hylocereus polyrhizus)

Providing high-quality feed is one of the efforts to increase fish productivity and growth and reduce fish mortality. One of the additional alternative feed ingredients as a source of vegetable protein is dragon fruit peel which can be used as an additional ingredient in fish feed. The study of the chemical composition of feed with the addition of dragon fruit peel flour is essential information to determine the effect of addition and the benefits of by-products (waste) from food processing in aquaculture development. This study aims to evaluate the quality of the chemical composition of feed after being treated with the addition of dragon peel flour through proximate analysis. The test was carried out at the Agricultural Product Technology Laboratory of Lampung State Polytechnic, from June to August 2020. The test results showed that dragon fruit peel flour had a carbohydrate content of 50.74%, crude fiber 26.22%, ash 21.35%, protein 5.08%, and fat 4.80% (dry weight). The test results showed that the addition of dragon fruit peel flour increased the protein content in the feed, which increased with the increase in the added dragon fruit flour. The highest protein content in treatment was 1.5%, namely 37.79% (dry weight), and decreased in the addition of dragon fruit flour by 2.0%. The highest ash content in the addition of 2.0% was 11.32% (dry weight). The content of crude fiber, carbohydrates and fat has decreased with the increasing dose of dragon fruit flour. The addition of dragon fruit peel flour can increase the protein content in the feed to substitute in the manufacture of fish feed. This also increases the utilization of dragon fruit peel waste, especially in aquaculture, to reduce waste disposal into the environment.

COMMUNICATION FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF MODERN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

This study was entitled Communication Factors Affecting the Adoption of Modern Agricultural Production Technology. This paper evaluates the communication factors affecting the adoption of modern practices on watermelon production in Quezon, Nueva Ecija Province, Philippines. Data were obtained from randomly selected 77 watermelon producers with the aid of a structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using various descriptive statistical techniques and correlation analysis for getting meaningful results. The findings portray that 31.2% of the respondents are in the range of 48-53 years which is the active age range. The mean age of the respondents was 50 years. It showed that 100% of the respondents are male and married, and 54.5% of them reached and completed high school. It was also revealed that 42.9% of the producers have an annual income that ranges from 50,000-100,000 pesos, and 51.9% of them has 1 hectare of their land. Finding also revealed that 36% of the respondents have the farming experience that ranges from 10-20 years. The average years spent in farming is around 18 years. Major findings revealed that the respondents’ communication media sources are leaflets and flyers, in print; television, in broadcast; and their colleagues, in interpersonal. The production practices adopted mainly by the producers are modern watermelon variety selection, land preparation and planting, fertilization, water management, weed management, pests and diseases management, and harvesting. Among all practices, ‘fertilization’, ‘weed management’, ‘pests and diseases management’, and ‘harvesting’ are the highest, and ‘modern watermelon variety selection’ is the lowest. The overall mean adoption score is 3.90. Finally, it can say that the communication factor that affects the adoption of modern practices on watermelon production is the message being received.

Using the results of remote sensing of land for programmed agricultural production in arid conditions

The article considers methodological approaches to substantiating the main tasks solved by the developed software package for managing agricultural production in the programmed cultivation of agricultural crops. There are characteristic differences in the reflection spectrum of agricultural plants due to the influence of water vapor absorption. The total reflected radiation in the optical and near-infrared range, recorded by remote sensing, depends on the biological and varietal characteristics of plants, the development of the leaf surface, their growth phases, the chemical composition of the soil, and other factors. The set of vegetation indices NDVI and its modifications is justified. Problems of mathematical modeling of irrigation technologies in arid conditions based on differential equations are revealed. The model takes into account agrochemical features of soils, biological properties of crops, agroclimatic conditions, as well as technological parameters of irrigation regimes. The necessity and expediency of using digital information technologies in agricultural production, including irrigation reclamation, for operational management and control of agrotechnological parameters of crop cultivation are justified. A conceptual and logical database model for programmed crop cultivation has been developed. The developed software package will allow systemically aggregating and accumulating agrophysical and hydrometeorological information to justify land reclamation measures.

Improving the elements of organic farming in rice cultivation

The guarantee of food security of any state is to obtain guaranteed yields of high-quality agricultural products. The implementation of such a task is feasible only if all the technological and environmental conditions of its cultivation are met. In the current situation, when, along with the growing anthropogenic load on the land of the agricultural Fund and the reduction of available irrigation water, as well as non - compliance with agricultural production technologies, organic farming is the solution to the urgent problem of obtaining high yields of high-quality products without compromising the agricultural resource potential of soils. The transfer of production to organic farming should be carried out in stages, due to the high cost of its implementation and the use of a large number of additional resources (agro-reclamation, economic, energy, labor, technical and technological, environmental). In our research, we suggest using an organic method for cleaning drainage runoff with halophytes planted in phyto-sections located in the discharge channels of the rice irrigation system. It was found that the use of phyto-sections of various lengths, depending on the chemical composition of drainage and discharge waters, allows one to clean the drainage runoff from mechanical impurities, organic and biogenic elements. This makes it possible to reduce suffusion and removal of nutrients from rice checks, reduce the irrigation rate by 10%, increase the reclamation state of soils, and reduce the cost of rice production by 7%.

Virtual Water Trade in the Service Sector: China's Inbound Tourism as a Case Study.

Research on virtual water and the water footprint is mainly focused on agriculture and industry, and less so on the service sector. The trade in products generates virtual water flow, as does the flow of people. The flow of international tourists will inevitably lead to the transfer and exchange of water resources embedded in the virtual form. This study takes China’s inbound tourism flow as the research object, from the perspective of the water footprint, in order to explore virtual water “exports” to the world. Based on kernel density estimation and ArcGIS spatial analysis, spatial-temporal evolution and structural difference were investigated. Virtual water “exports” showed an increasing trend. The kernel density estimation curves basically exhibited a “single peak” feature which indicated that virtual water “exports” from tourism were not significantly polarized in China. In terms of spatial evolution, this varied greatly at the provincial and regional level and Guangdong was always in the high value area. The south displayed greater values than the north, but this difference in provinces narrowed over the years. The water footprint of food was the largest, more specifically, the green component of this water footprint. Promoting a reasonable diet, reducing food waste, improving agricultural production technology, reducing the frequency of changing hotel supplies, and encouraging the use of new energy helped to reduce the water footprint. Virtual water trade in the service sector provides a new idea for helping to mitigate the global water crisis, in addition to virtual water flow for agricultural products.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION: IMPLEMENTATION BACKGROUND, CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

Digital technologies have been deeply integrated into our lives and found their application in all areas of human activity, including agriculture. Technological progress, the development of infrastructure in the IT industry, wider access to the Internet, a high level of education and growing computer literacy of the population contribute to the popularization and introduction of digital technologies in agricultural production. The review of the use of digital technologies in the agricultural sector has shown that existing software tools help plan the work of an agricultural organization, monitor the state of production, manage the farm, and sell products on virtual trading platforms. Most software products are able to store data in the cloud, and farmers can access the system via their personal account from any device with Internet access. There are also a number of programs on the market that allow farmers to plan, analyze and control the crop or livestock production. Leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery and equipment are actively integrating digital technologies into their products. It is now possible to manage a fl eet of vehicles used in the fi elds, and implement unmanned control. Use can be made of tractors equipped with automatic systems for driving along rows or laid paths, turning, and monitoring process parameters. The authors propose a set of digital control means to be used in agricultural production, based on the application of technologies of the Internet of things, cloud data storage, big data processing, and artifi cial intelligence. It is the technologies that digital agriculture will be based on, which use robotic monitoring tools to collect information and transmit it to “cloud data storage”. It is processed there and directed to the control system, which develops the optimal solution and transmits the control signal to the robotic actuators. In this regard, the development of agricultural machinery should be focused on the robotic tools designed for monitoring and performing technological operations. The most diffi cult task is to develop a control system, since it must have elements of artifi cial intelligence and replace humans in agricultural production.

НАПРЯМИ ВДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ АГРАРНОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ В УКРАЇНІ

The article considers the current state of the institutional field of modern state agrarian policy, which consists of a number of legislative acts regulating: the area in which business activities of economic entities of the agrarian sector, features, mechanisms and measures of state support of the agrarian sector, measures to protect natural resources used in agriculture. The main problems that hinder the further development of the agrarian sector are highlighted: deformed structure of agricultural production in favor of export-oriented crop products, lack of program document on agrarian sector development, low efficiency of state support of the agrarian sector, lack of strategic vision and concrete actions to overcome the livestock crisis, access of agricultural producers to bank loans, inefficient use of the potential of Ukrainian lands, environmental problems of agricultural land use, insufficient development of agricultural market infrastructure. Currently, the agrarian sector makes a significant contribution to the country's GDP, the inflow of foreign currency from foreign trade operations provides the domestic market with a wide range of food products at a very acceptable level. However, the current model of functioning of the agrarian sector is inefficient. The lack of effective mechanisms to support small producers leads to a decrease in their competitiveness, reduced production of agricultural products and increasing demand for their imports, deteriorating food security, rising unemployment among the rural population and migration of labor to large cities and abroad. Due to the non-inclusive development of the agrarian sector, Ukraine is losing a significant share of the positive potential of favorable trends in world food markets. The main directions of further reforming of the agrarian sector of Ukraine and ensuring food security of the state, in particular: stimulating investment processes in the agrarian sector of Ukraine, introduction of modern technologies in agricultural production, development of agricultural market infrastructure, development of small agricultural production, development of agricultural cooperatives, rural development.