Biguniak A. Functioning of Marketing Channels to Trade Livestock in Ukraine

1. Object of research: a set of theoretical, methodological and organizational aspects of agricultural marketing and distribution system products. 2. Aim: study of theoretical foundations and develop practical recommendations for improvement and effective functioning of the marketing channels of livestock in Ukraine. 3. Methods: dialectical, historical, logical, monographic in conjunction with the method of induction, analysis and synthesis, combined with economic and statistical, cash and constructive in conjunction with a graphical, simplex method of mathematical modeling in conjunction with the scoring. 4. Theoretical and practical results: improved theoretical and methodological provision of the Agricultural Marketing, recommendations to improve the channels of live cattle. A mechanism of a network of wholesale markets livestock in Ukraine and justified their territorial allocation schemes. The scheme units wholesale markets livestock with determination of their functions and the proposed draft "Regulation on the wholesale markets of livestock" A draft of the measures the State to support the formation of a network of wholesale markets livestock in Ukraine until 2020. 5. Scientific novelty: the first mechanism developed a network of wholesale markets livestock in Ukraine with substantiated their territorial allocation scheme considering a number of factors, in contrast to the existing distribution channels will allow cattle to increase the effectiveness of its marketing and revenue producers. 6. Level of implementation: key findings were used by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ukraine with the "Regulations on the wholesale markets of cattle", Department of Economic Development and Agricultural Market in the development of measures to develop infrastructure and wholesale markets products, EU agricultural service cooperatives of Ukraine with proposals Government on the development of marketing cooperatives and creating Zgurivka cooperative with sales of cattle Kiev region., NSC "Institute of Agrarian Economics" in the formation of proposals to the draft "State program of wholesale markets of agricultural products" and the Decree of President of Ukraine "On some measures to improve the financial condition of the agricultural sector and livestock development. " Methods are on the theoretical foundations ahromarketynhu and wholesale markets of agricultural products in developed economies are used in the learning process of the Faculty Agricultural Management, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. 7. Field (field) use: activities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ukraine, Union of agricultural cooperatives of Ukraine and the NSC "Institute of Agrarian Economics," the educational process of higher education.