Stimulation of Investment Activity in Agricultural Complex

The purpose of this article is to present the results about stimulation of investment activity in the agriculturalindustrial complex of Ukraine. In the process of research the following methods have been used: logic synthesis, scientific abstraction, analytical grouping, matching, comparison, techniques of statistical analysis. The status and conditions of investment activity in the agricultural -industrial complex of Ukraine has been analyzed in the study. Identified key trends of the dynamics and structure of investment activities in the agricultural -industrial complex of Ukraine. It has been pointed out that the most attractive agricultural-industrial complex for foreign investors are food production. There is a tendency to reduce the level of direct government support for capital investment in the agricultural sector. It has been established that the types of economic activities agricultural-industrial complex in the course of 2017 were introduced 233 investment projects, followed by public authorities and of government (national, departmental and regional levels). The proposals on improving the investment attractiveness of the agricultural-industrial complex. Justified measures aimed at improvement of organizational-economic mechanism of investment activity in agriculture. The practical value of the studies is that its results offered tools to stimulate investment lending to agriculture by way of payment of budgetary compensations aimed at "cheaper" loans, as well as for the expansion of practice of application of investment lending to agriculture through the application of market instruments. Scientific novelty lies in the fact that the results of the conducted research to identify promising market-based instruments of stimulating the long-term (investment) crediting of agricultural-industrial complex, namely: to support the operation of cooperative banks, created with the participation of agricultural entities; support the establishment and functioning of the specialized agricultural banks, should be focused on priority service borrowers in agriculture; the creation of the State Development Bank, which will implement preferential investment crediting of subjects of agricultural-industrial complex; to encourage the introduction of new loan products for agriculture.