Agricultural markets

Abstract

(Vinnytsia) The article reviews the essence and content of scientific views on the category "agricultural market" and "infrastructure of agricultural market". It is established that the formation and fulfilling of an organized and transparent agrarian market with powerful and effective components that can reconcile the interests of agricultural producers and consumers, should be a network of market institutions such as exchanges, trading houses and other elements of infrastructure. It is proved that the modern market transformations of the agrarian sector of Ukraine, which are accompanied by constant modification of market relations, require new methods of organization of the agrarian market as a complex economic system in which many elements inherent in a market economy interact. It is determined that the agrarian market performs a number of important functions (stimulating, informative, pricing, controlling, rehabilitation, reproductive, integrative, intermediary, regulatory), on which the effectiveness of its functioning and development depends. With a systems approach, it has been established that the agrarian market should be viewed as a complex system of interconnected and complementary systems of lower order (consumer solvent demand, supply, agriculture, and market infrastructure and government regulation). It is established that the agricultural market has a number of distinctive features that differentiate it from other types / types of markets. At the same time, the agrarian market as a set of economic relations, which are formed in the sphere of exchange concerning the sale of agricultural products, operates on the basis of common economic laws (cost, saving of resources, equilibrium). It is proved that the efficiency of the agrarian market should be understood as a logically ordered system of subjects of high-quality infrastructure, principles and methods of its functioning in accordance with modern conditions. It ensures the balance of supply and demand, equilibrium price parity and the proper level of competitiveness of agricultural products to meet international requirements and the internal needs of society. In that the modern infrastructure of agricultural market Ukraine is on the stage of formation in accordance with the development of agrarian relations in the country, and its peculiarity is that it has many intermediary structures that do not provide a reasonable price for producers, while having this intermediary operations have a significant economic benefit, and domestic agricultural producers lose a significant portion of their economic profits. In addition, the agricultural market of Ukraine is characterized by a long process of creating a system of organizations, institutions, enterprises and establishing methods of their activity, which are aimed at carrying out operations on the sale and purchase of agricultural