Information Support of Management of the Agrarian Sector of Economy: State and Prospects of Improvement

The purpose of the article is to assess the state of information support of management of the agrarian sector of economy at all levels of the management hierarchy, starting from the enterprise and ending with the state level. The key problems and shortcomings of the system of information support of management of the agrarian sector of economy were identified. Great attention was paid to the question of limited accessibility of information on the agroholdings activities, the formation of the accounting system in territorial communities. The economic and social dimension of agricultural statistics was characterized. It was revealed that there is no financial and economic information on the agricultural activities of households in the official statistics system. The directions of development of the national information system in the field of agriculture and rural areas, based on common European principles and combining the economic, social and environmental aspects of agriculture, were grounded. The prospects for introducing the new system of departmental agrarian statistics were determined.