Golovach G. Economic mechanism of Ukrainian hop market foundation and functioning

Subject of research: economic mechanism of Ukrainian hop market foundation and functioning. Research objective: to evaluate the set of reasons that led to loosing the world leading positions of the Ukrainian hop industry and to develop a set of recommendations aimed to improve the economic mechanism of Ukrainian hop market foundation and functioning. Methods: historical, logical, monographical, statistically-economical analysis, balancing, calculating-constructive etc. Theoretical and practical results: stated scientific theses extend the knowledge of agrarian economic science with the well-grounded analysis of the economic relations and key trends on the Ukrainian and world hop markets, with the methodical and practical approaches to the improvement of the Ukrainian hop industry state regulation; proposed ways of economic mechanism improvement of Ukrainian hop market foundation and functioning are aimed to increase the effectiveness of the hop industry functioning and to satisfy the domestic andexport requirements in high quality hop products. Scientific novelty: the structure and interdependency of the economic mechanism components of agricultural products market foundation and functioning are specified; the key trends of the Ukrainian hop market foundation and functioning along with the reasons that led to their establishment are defined; for the first time the domestic balance of hop demand and supply is elaborated; the methods of hop growing and processing efficacy improvement are economically justified; the rates of hop import duties are proven; the set of courses and instruments for hop industry state regulation is proposed; for the first time the key directions of the marketing activities for the Ukrainian hop market development are set. Implementation degree: the research results are being used in the current acitivities and during the plans development at the micro- and macro- levels by Ukrainian Hop Association (the letter # 3-17-22 dated 23.04.04), JS "Ukrhmel" (the letter #221 dated 23.04.04), Senior Management of agriculture and food policy of Zhitomir state region administration (letter #5-14/2189 dated 27.04.04). Effectiveness: implementation of the research results will contribute to the improvement of economic mechanism of Ukrainian hop market foundation and functioning, increase of volumes and effectiveness of the Ukrainian hop products production, increase of their competitiveness on the domestic and world markets. Sphere, application area: hop growing farms, hop processing plants, beer producing enterprises, state management organs.