Volyk A. Developing of agricultural cooperation in Western European countries (results and possibilities of its using in agroindustrial complex of Ukraine)

Object of investigation: cooperatives of Western European countries, foreign literature of agricultural cooperation development, statistic-economic information, state materials of legislative and executive organs of some countries, firms. The purpose of research: generalisation, social-economic estimation of system of organization-legislative, economic mechanisms of agricultural cooperatives creation and function abroad, to base possibilities and economic expedience of its usage in agroindustrial production of Ukraine during coming to the market economy. Methods: system analysis, monographic, tabular. Theoretical and practical results: generalized theoretical bases existing in publications, practical experience of formation, function of foreign cooperatives, proved possibilities and economic expedience of foreign experience using in Ukrainian cooperation development, especially in the service, realization, processing sphere of agricultural production. Research novelty: generalized theoretic-merhodologi c bases of cooperation development, analyzed cooperative experience, social-economic estimation of ways, essence of cooperation in West Europe, elaborated classification of organization-economic forms and types of foreign cooperatives, found main cooperative principles, proved an influence of social-economic functions on cooperation development abroad and in Ukraine, proved expedience of foreign experience using in Ukraine. Extent of inculcate: scientific elaborations are used in practice activity of 7 Ukrainian cooperatives - members of National Agricultural Cooperative Union of Ukraine. Effectiveness: will promote inferior creation and function of agricultural cooperation in agroindustrial production of Ukraine on bases of foreign experience using. Sphere, branch of using: agroindustrial production of Ukraine.