OPTIMIZATION TOOLS FOR REGULATING INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

The subject, the purpose of the work. The following is the generalization of the methodological and practical provisions for the investment development of the agro-industrial complex. Solved assignment of the mechanism of regulation of investment activity in the agricultural sector. Developed proposals for prospective instruments of direct and indirect support of investment activity in the agricultural sector. The role of innovation as a special form of investment in the agricultural sector. Subject of research - scientific and practical bases of regulation of investment activity in the agricultural sector. The purpose of this study is to develop evidence-based recommendations on optimization of the instrumentation for regulation of investment activity in the agro-industrial complex in conditions of modern socio-economic transformations. Method or methodology of work. Was used General scientific and specific methods and techniques of scientific research – induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, scientific abstraction, method of expert evaluations, a formal method (for the analysis of texts of regulatory legal acts). The results of the work. The scientifically-based proposals on further optimization of the instrumentation for regulation of investment activity in the agricultural sector. The scope of the results. The obtained results can be applied in the formation and realization of state agrarian policy, state investment policy, the state of monetary policy. Conclusions. Scientifically substantiated proposal on the feasibility of Strategy of investment development of the agro-industrial complex. The aim of the Strategy should determine structure improvement and increase of the investment resources involved (sent) to the types of economic activities agro-industrial complex taking into account declared priorities of socio-economic and food policy. Among the instruments of direct support for investment activities in the agricultural sector are the following: full or partial state financing of investment and innovative projects in selected economic activities in agriculture; implementation of programs of public-private partnership in the implementation of the system of investment projects; providing guarantees (state, local) in the implementation of investment projects (full, partial); support of major investment projects, including with attraction of foreign investments; promotion of individual investors (investors) to obtain subsidies, grants, investment loans. Among the instruments of indirect support of investment activity in the agricultural sector offered the following: maintaining the appropriate level of producers ' income; price regulation; support the development of market and production infrastructure; payment of costs of operating activities; state financing of scientific and scientific-technical activities on creation of new varieties of plants and breeding animals; instruments for regional support of food industry and agricultural production; organization of non-profit marketing and promotion of the domestic food industry and agriculture in world markets.