Social and Economic Determinants for the Development of Resource Potential of Small Forms of Agrarian Production in Ukraine

Abstract

The socio-economic importance of small forms of entrepreneurship in the national economic model has significantly increased. There was substantiated an existence of specific features of small rural enterprise development of the leading European countries, since farming is the basis of family agricultural business. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the concept of low-income family-labor enterprise. There were used methods to evaluate the results of production and economic activity of farms based on the alternative ways to estimate the labor costs for the production owners. The development trends of farms in the European Union and the dynamics of the income level of the members-farm owners were analyzed. There were established the peculiarities of the farm holdings development in Ukraine and the factors that determine the specifics of their sectoral diversification. The comparative analysis of the level of production efficiency for the main types of agricultural products among the agricultural enterprises and farms of Ukraine was carried out. The need to integrate the monetary compensation of labor costs of farm members-owners as a component of their resource potential was proved. The significance of the research results to ensure the effective economic activity of small forms in Ukraine was substantiated.