QUESTIONS ABOUT FARM DEVELOPMENT IN LVIV REGION
Authors:   Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Sachovsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

As evidenced by the experience of developed foreign countries, small-scale farms are one of the most progressive and highly effective forms of agricultural production. As for our country, we believe that the effectiveness of their functioning, the scale of their dissemination, are directly dependent on the depth of penetration of market relations in all spheres of public production. This is the main theme of the proposed article. Its most important features are: firstly, we considered it appropriate, even necessary, to examine the features of the development of small-scale farms in Lviv region against the backdrop of changes that took place in the dynamics at the national level during the corresponding period. In our opinion, this contributed to a relatively deep understanding of the specifics of the dissemination of small-scale farms within the country and on their background in Lviv region. Secondly, it was specified mainly by examining the place and role of small-scale farms in the agricultural sector of the economy of the region, including an analysis of their relative weight in the production of the most important types of agricultural products. Thirdly, the dynamics of the development of small-scale farms during 2010–2020 were considered and analyzed, mainly in terms of the specifics of the development of the most important sub-sectors such as crop and livestock production. This was the main focus of the proposed article. Fourthly, an important addition was the consideration of the structure of the sale of products by small-scale farms in Lviv region at the intra-regional level, in terms of districts. Due to many reasons, we consider it appropriate to separately highlight one of the peculiarities of the dynamics of the development of farms in Ukraine. It has been estimated that since the introduction of farms of this type, approximately 60 regulatory acts have been adopted by the legislative bodies of the country. At the same time, according to our data, the share of farms in the majority of regions of Ukraine is at the level of 2.0-7.0% of the total volumes of agricultural production, and interestingly, it has remained relatively stable throughout the entire period, showing little change. At the end, we consider it necessary to separately focus on such general provisions from the practice of functioning of farming enterprises: firstly, farming enterprises are a fundamentally new type of agricultural production in Ukraine, generated perhaps not so much by economic prerequisites as by the idea of establishing market relations in the agrarian sector of our country; secondly, we believe it is appropriate to separately highlight the following: the mechanical introduction and simple borrowing of basic elements of the activities of farming enterprises from the functioning practice of such enterprises in developed foreign countries is unacceptable, as there are other necessary corresponding prerequisites that have emerged in those countries compared to our reality; thirdly, we would like to highlight the fact that the entire system of economic instruments used in practical activities has its, if not main, role to play in the spread of farming enterprises, and there is a need for their comprehensive use, taking into account and implementing on practice that the nature, target functions, and character of practically each of them have changed radically in the conditions of market relations, as well as the most important change that the role and place of the state in managing economic processes have changed.