STATE SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN RUSSIA
The most important direction of Russia’s agricultural policy is to ensure the sustainable development of rural areas. However, as practice shows, this process is impossible without state support. Sustainable socio-economic development of rural areas will also depend on timely support provided at the state level for small forms of farming in rural areas, including peasant (farmer) farms, whose task is to saturate the domestic market with high-quality products. The paper reflects the main activities of peasant (farm) farms that need state support - providing agricultural producers with credit resources, fixed assets, their information and consulting support, ensuring the production of livestock products, as well as support for organic producers. In addition, the authors analyzed the main directions of state support for farms implemented to date, which made it possible to identify and justify the need to create a system of unified information centers for consulting support of farmers.The introduction of such a system will allow us to actively replicate the successful experience of the development of peasant (farm) farms that have received state support. The object of the study is rural areas of Russia and small forms of management, in particular, peasant (farm) farms. As methods of research were used such methods as analysis, comparison method, grid method etc.