Object of study: financial and credit processes, the objective laws and prerequisites mechanism to activate the bank investment lending agricultural projects. Purpose: the formation of the theoretical and methodological foundations of banking investment lending, which increase investment activity agroformations. Methods: abstract, logical, systematic, evolutionary and institutional analysis, dynamic, structural, comparative, monographs, graphical and tabular interpretation, economic and mathematical modeling and forecasting, expert evaluation, logical structuring. Theoretical and practical results: the evolution of theory of credit has been investigated, the scientific and methodological foundations of bank investment crediting of agroformations were found. The analysis of patterns and trends in bank investment crediting of agroformations was conducted, factors of influence on these processes and conditions for further development were identified. The mechanisms of livening the participation of banks in agricultural investment process were substantiated, methodological approaches to risk management of investment crediting were developed, an interactive model of bank investment crediting of agroformations was developed, conceptual basis of bank monitoring of agricultural investment process and investment activity of agricultural enterprises was modernized.. The novelty lies in the justification completed and interconnected elements of the theoretical basis of the investment bank crediting of agricultural programs and projects, as well as the development tools of its implementation, which catalyze investment activity agroformations and broaden the financial base of their investment activities. The degree of implementation: theoretical concepts, transformed into guidelines are used in the practice of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Public Joint Stock Company "Commercial Bank "Akkordbank ", Public Joint Stock Company" Bank Boguslaw ", in the learning process Zhytomyr National Agroecological University. Scope (area) of: banking, agricultural production, educational process.