The article presents a generalized theoretical model of agricultural co-operation development in Ukraine. The model is based on the analysis of historical development of the cooperation, its current tendencies and scientific forecast of the prospects of the cooperation development in future. Comparison of domestic and foreign cooperation systems is made. The article reports that economic adaptation to the particular market is the prominent trend in the countries with highly developed cooperation movement while Ukraine strives only for the establishment of more or less competitive conditions for the development of the cooperation. Consideration of the problems of the cooperation from the point of cooperative movement to the more developed social and economic system is one of the methodological requirements of the systemic approach to the tasks of the estimating the up-to-date state of cooperation development in Ukraine.

In Ukraine agricultural mechanical engineering is orientated on the rise of the industrial capacity and the productivity of the technical means. Resource saving technologies, ecological safety and creation of the comfortable working conditions are of primary importance nowadays. Modern agro-industrial production requires the rise in the research potential in the development of agricultural machinery, which is aimed at producing high quality machinery that, in turn, causes the rise in the prices for the new technical means. In resent years Ukraine has got a great amount of foreign agricultural machinery due to government and international credits. The production volume of Ukrainian agricultural machinery has increased due to the funds provided by the state leasing fund. Some scientists insist on the importance of preserving the large farms as this ensures the rise of the efficiency of production. The article provides data on the service life of agricultural machinery in collective farms of Mykolaiv oblast. In 1998 the majority of the tractors (55-79 %) has been in use for more than 10 years whereas in 1990 only 8-22 %. Another problem covered in the article is the reduction in machinery operating personnel's skill. The possible way out of the crisis is the development of collective agricultural enterprises as well as recreation of machinery and technological stations, setting up cooperative corporations with equal initial conditions.

The article focusses on finding new ways to create stable financial conditions in Ukraine's economies. The National programme of agro-industrial complex development and social revival of the country for the years 1999-2000 highlights the importance of intensification the system of control over the enterprises' financial conditions. The article introduces the methods of evaluating the enterprises' financial firmness in Ukraine.

Positive and negative features of the present amortization policy in Ukraine compared to the developed countries are under analysis. The necessity is substantiated to introduce in Ukraine the effective up-to-date amortization system, the improvement in the mechanism of protecting the domestic commodity producers in the internal and external markets by means of supporting the agriculture on the part of the state power. The direct and indirect methods of regulating the market mechanisms of economic marketing and the ways to improve the amortization policy in Ukraine are suggested. More concrete indices of protecting the interests of the domestic commodity producers in the world markets are given, and the procedure of their calculations is simulated. It is stated that the creation of the favourable conditions to return the investments as the deductions in the full volume and in the economically favourable terms should be the main goal of the state influence on the amortization policy of the entities of economic management.

The condition of the agro-industrial production and separate sectors of agro-industrial complex, the consequences of economic management, the use of labour resources under conditions of the market economy are studied. It is stated that a lack of consistency in providing the economic reforms in Ukraine leads to the reduction in the production and living standards of the population. Remuneration in rural economy does not stimulate working people, profits from the private economies are much higher than from the collective farms. Providing reforms in the collective farms aimed at their transfer to the production structures of the market type requires studying new methodological approaches to forming social and economic mechanism of productive work motivation in the region.

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.

Traditional structure of the "fodder production - use " system has been formed under conditions of sufficient provision with relatively inexpensive energy resources, fertilizers, pesticides, technical devices etc. Nowadays a deficiency and high prices for the means of agricultural production require not only critical analysis, but also finding the reserves for providing a competitive system. The necessity of finding the ways for saving energy, new alternative technologies for producing increased amount of various fodders, and for reducing energy consumption is stated. The key aspect of saving production energy is the development of new technologies

In Ukraine agricultural mechanical engineering is orientated on the rise of the industrial capacity and the productivity of the technical means. Resource saving technologies, ecological safety and creation of the comfortable working conditions are of primary importance nowadays. Modern agro-industrial production requires the rise in the research potential in the development of agricultural machinery, which is aimed at producing high quality machinery that, in turn, causes the rise in the prices for the new technical means. In resent years Ukraine has got a great amount of foreign agricultural machinery due to government and international credits. The production volume of Ukrainian agricultural machinery has increased due to the funds provided by the state leasing fund. Some scientists insist on the importance of preserving the large farms as this ensures the rise of the efficiency of production. The article provides data on the service life of agricultural machinery in collective farms of Mykolaiv oblast. In 1998 the majority of the tractors (55-79 %) has been in use for more than 10 years whereas in 1990 only 8-22 %. Another problem covered in the article is the reduction in machinery operating personnel's skill. The possible way out of the crisis is the development of collective agricultural enterprises as well as recreation of machinery and technological stations, setting up cooperative corporations with equal initial conditions

The article presents a generalized theoretical model of agricultural co-operation development in Ukraine. The model is based on the analysis of historical development of the cooperation, its current tendencies and scientific forecast of the prospects of the cooperation development in future. Comparison of domestic and foreign cooperation systems is made. The article reports that economic adaptation to the particular market is the prominent trend in the countries with highly developed cooperation movement while Ukraine strives only for the establishment of more or less competitive conditions for the development of the cooperation. Consideration of the problems of the cooperation from the point of cooperative movement to the more developed social and economic system is one of the methodological requirements of the systemic approach to the tasks of the estimating the up-to-date state of cooperation development in Ukraine

The problem of food protein in the food products is one of the most vital nowadays. It is solved mostly by means of combining protein of plant and animal origin. Annual grain legumes as well as oil crops play an important role in solving this problem. Grain legumes provide obtaining the plant protein of high quality, which can be used in food and fodder industry. Annual grain legumes contain by 2-3 times more protein than cereal crops. The protein of these crops is well balanced by aminoacid content and is physically active. It is known to have high nutritive, medicinal and fodder value and is well assimilated in the human organism. The production of grain legume products is not stable in Ukraine because of the climatic conditions, imperfection of crop placing, non-observance of the growing technology and general crisis factors in agro-industrial production. The Ukrainian agricultural economy strives for the increase in grain legume production. This can be achieved through the extention of land under this crops to 1.7 million per hectare, establishing optimal relationship of cereal and grain legumes