AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AS A MAJOR SOURCE IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT
The author discusses special importance of agricultural science in the innovative development within Agro-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation; defines the main priority of scientific & technical and innovation policy in further modernization of the national agricultural sector; proposes the directions of state support of the national AIC by means of financing of agricultural science, i.e. one of the measures which are not limited by the rules of the WTO trade policy.