Kotliarov V. Investment attractiveness of agricultural units

The thesis is based on the setting and development of theoretical and methodological principles, practical recommendations for increasing the investment attractiveness of agro-industrial units. The economic essence of investment attractiveness and scientific substantiation of organizational and economic principles of strategy and mechanism for raising the level of investment attractiveness of agro-industrial units was clarified. On the basis of generalization of foreign experience the mechanisms for increasing the investment attractiveness of vertically integrated units to identify the main approaches to the formation of investment policy in the agrarian sector was revealed; methodological approaches for researching the fields, trends and efficiency of investment attractiveness of agricultural units for further assessment were improved. The current level of investment attractiveness of agro-industrial units was estimated, trends and development factors were determined, the actual performance of the functioning and prospects for the development of vertically integrated agro-industrial units were investigated, the main directions and resources of investment support of the process of functioning of agro-industrial units were analyzed in order to enable the effective functioning of ROSTOK - HOLDING Ltd. management system. In the present research the methodical approaches to the traditional assessment of the efficiency of investment projects of vertically-integrated agro-industrial units on the basis of the theory of fuzzy sets are improved. The proposals on improving the mechanism of increasing the investment attractiveness of agro-industrial units through the introduction of an integrated management system were given; the proposals to form a strategy for increasing the investment attractiveness of agro-industrial units based on the model of regulation of agro-industrial activities through the implementation of an active state policy were made.