Abstract: The research subject is regional agricultural policy, undergoing significant socio-economic transformations, aimed at, first of all, the provision of national food safety. At the same time, the issues of instrumental and methodological support of substantiation of goals and the agricultural sector strategic development indexes are still highly controversial. Therefore, the problem of development of the models and methods of organizational and economic mechanism of strategic goal-setting, gets special attention both on the legal and the scientific and methodological levels. The research is based on the methodology of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is aimed at quantitative assessment of regional agricultural and food policy, and the instruments of econometric analysis. The research is based on the data of the agricultural sector of Penza region and the neighboring regions. The author obtains new data on the current state of agricultural policy in studied region, which needs to be corrected. The developed strategical models of agricultural and food policy formation can serve as a base for the state agricultural policy reorientation. 

Abstract: A crucially new socioeconomic situation which does not fit the framework of the current national agrarian policy has establishes in Russia’s agricultural sphere. Under the conditions of the external economic challenges and restrictions, the questions of the food independence of the country became more critical, and the problems of its provision remained unresolved. This causes the need for drastic reforms in the approaches towards the establishment and implementation of the agroinsdustrial policy, as well as requires radical renovations of the instrumental base of planning and forecasting of the strategic development of agricultural economics and the search for a new model of functioning of the agroindustrial sector. The subject of this research became the modern agroindustrial policy of the region. Generalizing the modern norms of legislative field, it is demonstrated that the efficient vector of reformations in agricultural policy within the framework of strategic planning becomes the project management, which can bring the quality changes into the agroindustrial sphere. At the same time, the authors substantiate that it is necessary to set course for the formation and realization of the projects in each region based on the climate specificities, agricultural potential, and competitive advantages of the manufacturers.

Abstract: Efficient development and economic growth of agricultural sectors in developed countries are a result of the implementation of hightech research projects. The USA and EU countries pay much attention to their innovation-based development of agriculture and provide significant state support thereto. Russia is busy solving social and economic problems of their agricultural sphere and therefore the aforesaid issues are rarely mentioned in legal and regulatory acts despite a declared priority of the agricultural sector. As a consequence, the questions of profitability and necessity of investments into modernization of the agricultural sector are becoming important like never before. The authors of the present article have applied the monographic research, analysis of the structure and dynamics, expert evaluation method, survey, economic analysis, statistical and econometric analysis. They have also performed the analysis of the modern methods of budgetary subsidy support of the agricultural sector taking into account the effective rules of the world trade as established by the World Trade Organization. The authors analyze the issues arisign when the public funds are refocused on the aforesaid methods of supporting the agricultural sector from the point of view of efficiency of these methods and prove the importance and the need for budgetary support of biotechnological production projects.