AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES – AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL TERRITORIES

Анотація

Functioning agricultural market prospects and ensuring sustainable food security and increase incomes of agricultural producers depends on infrastructure conditions. Lack of effective, accessible channels for producers of agricultural products is the limiting factor in terms of redistribution of values in the pricing mechanism. It is necessary harmonization of interests of agricultural producers through the mechanism of cooperation.

Today, virtually the only prospect for improving the profitability of small forms of economic activity in rural areas is the development of agricultural service cooperation. It should be noted that this category of households account for around 60% of the gross domestic production of agricultural products, especially potatoes, fruits and berries, vegetables, milk, meat, eggs, without getting over the past 17 years, virtually no state support and without real access to food market