The thesis is devoted to clarifying topical issues of legal support for the protection of property rights of agricultural producers. The first step of the research is the identification of the basic concepts, namely «agricultural producer», «property rights of agricultural producers» and «protection of property rights of agricultural producers» that underlay the basis for the formation of the conceptual
and categorical apparatus of the study. At the same time, the category «agricultural commodity producer» is defined as the background lexical-legal structure, on which the rest of the studied concepts are built on. The composition of agricultural commodity producers has been clarified. In addition to legal entities – subjects of agrarian law and individual entrepreneurs, it is proposed to include therein individuals, members of personal peasant farms. It is concluded that the concept of property rights of agricultural producers is based on civil law ideas about their legal nature. However, the property rights of agricultural producers are considered to be an agrarian legal category because of the object of these rights that is agricultural property. Therefore, the classification of the property rights of agricultural producers shall be carried out according to the object oriented criterion. Taking into account the agrarian and legal specifics, the protection of property rights of agricultural producers is proposed to be defined as a complex system
of measures and methods used by the state represented by authorized bodies and officials, local authorities, courts and agricultural producers themselves to stop violations and restore their property rights. In the context of the conducted historical and legal research, it is established that the legislation of Kyivan Rus and the Cossacks contained norms for the protection of the property rights of the contemporary agricultural producers, but these norms were of a civil or criminal nature. There was not any protective model of peasant property rights in the legislation of the Ukrainian revolution era (1917–1921). Therefore, the periodization of agrarian legislation in the field of protecting the property rights of agricultural producers includes the following periods: the period
of the emergence of peasant law that for the first time introduced a special model оf judicial and administrative protection of the property rights of peasants (1861–1917), the Soviet period of protecting the property rights of large collective forms of business ( 1917–1990) and the modern period of a plurality of forms of peasant commodity production against the background of the implementation of a single mechanism for protecting their property rights (1990 – present). The institutional and legal nature of the normative formation regulating the relations of protecting property rights of agricultural producers in the structure of the agrarian law system has been substantiated. The legal institution for the protection of property rights of agricultural producers is inherently complex and integrated unit. The expediency of using the term «mechanism» to disclose the meaningful characteristics of the protection of property rights of agricultural producers is substantiated in the research document. The protection of property rights
of agricultural producers is primarily associated with clarifying the question of the forms. Therefore, the definition of the form of protection of property rights of agricultural producers is given. Protection forms are realized through the use of special means, among which, first of all, claims should be distinguished, a claim as a typical form of judicial protection and a complaint as a typical administrative form of protection. Arguments are given for the emergence of methods of protection from the fact of a real violation, non-recognition or challenge of rights. At the same time, the differentiation of protection methods into general legal and agricultural legal ones is of practical importance. The argumentation of the protection methods emergence on the basis of the fact of a real violation, non-recognition or contestation of rights is given. At the same time, the differentiation of protection methods into general legal and agricultural legal ones is of practical importance. It is proposed to include insurance of agricultural products with state support as a compulsory type of insurance introduced by the agrarian law of the same name. The legal regulation of insurance of agricultural products with state support is quite reasonably attributed to the structure of the legal institution for the protection
of property rights of agricultural producers at the level of a separate subinstitution. It is reasoned that the object of insurance of agricultural products with state support should be exclusively property rights of agricultural producers
