Importance Considering contemporary economic conditions, the stabilization of national agriculture and respective issues gain higher significance. It requires improving the mechanism for providing the State aid to the sector and setting up respective principles. Objectives The research outlines the principles for State aid to agriculture. Methods Using comparative methods, I reviewed scientific approaches to setting up the principles for governmental control over agriculture, and described certain challenging issues in applying tools of the State aid to commodity producers, as identified through analytical methods of cognition. Results I analyzed the principles of the State agricultural policy, as formulated by agricultural economists, and evaluated certain clauses of Federal Law № 264-FZ On Development of Agriculture. As the analysis shows, there were no attempts to set up single principles for the State financial aid to agricultural producers. The article provides such agricultural characteristics that lay the basis for the principles and its State aid and presents my own principles for the State aid to agriculture. They consist of fundamental and secondary principles. Conclusions and Relevance Setting up single and fundamental principles for the State aid to agriculture is the first and most critical step towards the effective agricultural production. The findings can be used to outline certain initiatives of the State aid to agricultural producers, and articulate the governmental program for agricultural development and regulation of markets of agricultural products, raw materials and food.
Keywords: agriculture, State aid, principles, scientific nature, consistency, comprehensiveness
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