The Ways of Improving the Agriculture’s Foreign Economic Activity of Southern Ukraine

Abstract

The article reveals the concept of "foreign trade" and its role within the situation in Ukraine today. It analyzed the statistics of foreign trade of the food industry in the Southern region of the country during 2009-2013 years. The paper calculated and analyzed for each of the segments site performance dynamics, efficiency and intensity of foreign economic relations of enterprises engaged in agricultural activities. It discovered the advantages and disadvantages of economic activity of regional enterprises engaged in the food industry and suggested ways of improving the efficiency of foreign economic activity of Southern Ukraine, according to territorial characteristics and climatic conditions of each segment of the selected area.