ANTI-CRISIS MEASURES OF STATE SUPPORT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF ECONOMY
In recent years, the conditions for the development of small and medium agricultural enterprises (SMEs) have begun to change for the better, but in general they continue to remain difficult and inadequate to the requirements of the time. As a result of the measures taken to reduce the spread of coronovirus infection in the Russian Federation, SME representatives have additional and exacerbated previous problems in the implementation of their activities. Therefore, the demand for a systemic, focused institutional agrarian policy increased. The aim of the presented study was to develop such anti-crisis areas of state support for SMEs that will help to increase or maintain their level of effectiveness in modern conditions, taking into account measures already taken by the Government of the Russian Federation to stabilize the country's economy. The paper describes the main subjects of SMEs, analyzes the state support of farmers, briefly discusses the essence of the main problems, directions and measures of state regulation of their further development. The SME sector is represented by a wide variety offorms with varying degrees of development and prevalence. The number of small organizations in agriculture in 2015 amounted to 58.3 thousand. The farming sector is represented by 205 thousand farms. In 2018, farmers received 4.69 billion rubles in the form of unconnected hectare support. from the federal and regional budgets (2 times less than in 2013). The share of all state budget funds in the cost of farm products is not more than 5-6%. The article presents measures to address priority issues, the implementation of which will provide representatives of SMEs with minimization of the difficulties encountered in reducing consumer demand, wage labor, the likely cost of working capital and compulsory services.