Dairy cattle rearing economy is of great importance in the formation of food resources in Ukraine. The problem of overcoming the crisis in the dairy industry and increasing the volume of agricultural production is covered in the article

Effective balance of economic relations under conditions of market economy is impossible without applying the system of economic regulations with the profit rate as the basis. This notion is characterised as the correlation of the value of returns and the capital cost. The article represents a temporary scheme of price regulation of economic relations and stimulation of agrarian reformation

Results are given of studying the ways to solve water problems by means of improving the water management system in Ukraine's agro-industrial complex and in other sectors of economy. It is stated that solving the problems of locating the productive forces must be based on the ecological assessment of the technogenic influence on the natural resources. Nowadays there is no complex approach to the water management system. There is no unity between a forecasting assessment of the agricultural production and water resources systems. Solving the problems should be based on the use of an economic mechanism, as well as ecological and economical frameworks that make it possible to improve water conservation structures and to take into account the peculiarities of the natural and economic territories

Analysis of Ukraine's sugar beet sub-complex is given. At present sugar beet growing and sugar production are estimated as unprofitable. The necessity of reviving the industry is claimed. The ways out of the crisis for stabilizing the sugar beet industry are suggested. The experience of an enterprise, UkrIntertsukor JV, functioning under market conditions with high indices is elucidated. Establishing links between agriculture, food, processing branches and servicing them branches are to be provided. This line of development should be regarded as that of the first priority. One more strategic line is use of effective forms of economic management. The sugar market should be established. Fixing the uniform prices for sugar is envisaged. Agricultural producers are to be supported through mechanisms of the financial system, taxation, investment and amortization policies. The state should support domestic producers in the exports of Ukrainian sugar to Russia's and CIS countries' markets

In Ukraine transition to market economy has revealed trends toward merging the state finances with the credit system thus witnessing on the new fenomena in the finance and credit sphere which are to be scientifically evaluated. It is believed that at the up-to-date etap of Ukraine's economic development finance and monetary-credit policies are to be built so as to show the way in which economy could be led out of the crisis with the help of monetary-credit tools ensuring less losses. The main line is overcoming the inflation by means of using limiting emisson volumes and budget deficit. Non-payment crisis brought to slowing down of money turnover in the national economy, freezing assets in the form of late indebtedness. The article deals with the detailed macroeconomic analysis and ways out of the crisis with taking into consideration the foreign experience

The agricultural transportations are known to be expensive and resource-consuming. Taking into consideration the up-to-date conditions, in Ukraine a demand arose in provision of reviving working horses. As estimated by the Institute of Agricultural Economics (Kyiv), the needs in horses per 1000 hectares of arable lands are as follows: in the Steppe zone 10-12 horses, Forest Steppe - 20-22 and Forest zone - 32-34 horses. Ways of decreasing in milk production costs are stated

The article is an attempt to generalize an interpretation of the presidential Decree "On immediate measures regarding reforming the agricultural sector of the economy" of 3 December 1999 in Ukrainian mass media. In a number of cases the interpretation is brought into accordance with the reality by means of correcting existing opinions and explaining some acute problems of the agrarian reform by a leading economist

The necessity of choosing the agricultural cooperation as the form of activity that is the most understandable for peasants is discussed. The main special features of cooperatives are outlined. First of all they are seen as a combination of labour, material and technical resources with the aim of their effective use. Some statictical data is given on development of cooperatives in Ukraine. Setting up a network of servicing cooperatives with taking into consideration the foreign experience should be supported on the part of the state

The article deals with the main problems of the agrarian reform in Ukraine. The necessity of carrying out the reform is already long ago recognized in Ukraine. In the early nineties yet the following three main lines of the reform were substantiated: creating the market-by the content-environment as a basis for market system of economic management; building an economical mechanism and system of management ("rules of the game"); providing the effective use of the existing resource potential of Ukraine's agro-industrial complex according to the state's food demand and food safety. The ways in which problems of the reform could be solved are outlined by a leading economist

In Ukraine there is a need in reviving the agro-indstrial complex which should acquire its new qualitative traits that are to meet market economy's requirements. For reviving the agriculture a complex of economic, juridical and legal, organizational, scientific and technical levers is to be applied. The most important are as follows: stimulating demand by means of activating investment activities and providing stability of the national currency; creating prerequisites for transiting from extensive to mostly intensive type of development of agro-industrial production on the basis of private business; decreasing in the disparity of prices through establishing a principally new mechanism of agro-industrial integration of AIC's secondary and tertiary spheres enterprises and restricting monopolism of primary sphere enterprises. All the three levers should be launched simultaneously, complex and without time breaks. As suggested, violation of the requirement won't give a positive effect and can bring to deterioration of the social and economic situation in the AIC and the state as a whole