The thesis received a new important scientific problem solving theoretical and methodological development, methodological and applied the principles and practical recommendations for rationalizing the management of economic security of agricultural enterprises in the context of increasing economic efficiency of their activities, normalization and stabilization of reproduction processes of development. Grounded holistic concept of management of economic security of agricultural enterprises, based on the principles of monitoring economically safe and hazardous conditions, activation mechanisms, implementation tools and building complex structured two-tier system of economic security, which includes authentication subsystem states and strategies elimination of threats. Developed methodological principles of management of economic security of agricultural enterprises, which are based on its monitoring through a combination of methods to assess financial stability, identification and determination of structural and dynamic trends of the economic potential of the enterprise and determination of the basis of strategic priorities, the choice of strategic alternatives and generate strategies and production management measures to comply with the economic security of agricultural enterprises. Done structuring process of compliance with the economic security of agricultural enterprises on the basis of identification of external factors and challenges to economic security of agricultural enterprises, the selection of its components, namely, investment, industrial, scientific, technological, raw resource, financial, energy, personnel, legal and environmental safety, and also establish their connection with the mechanisms and management tools of economic security. Improved mechanism for managing the overall architecture of economic security of agricultural enterprises by including in its composition organizational, economic, financial, insurance and price mechanisms observance of economic security; - Identification of threats to economic security of agricultural enterprises by identifying their contents, manifestations, causal relationships between them on the basis of consistency and synergy effects of the financial and economic situation and behavior of enterprises. The methodical approach to assessing the safety of state agricultural enterprises on the basis of the results of the comparison of methods of determining the financial and economic stability of the capital advanced playback options, efficient realization of the economic potential of the company to the definition of the basis of the basic level of economic security of agricultural enterprises. Systematized management toolkit economic security of agricultural enterprises by formalizing groups of tools and means to improve competitiveness, inertial containment of threats to maintain playback, targeted stimulation of the economic potential of agricultural enterprises. Developed conceptual-categorical apparatus defined research subject area by issuance definitions of "economic security system of the agricultural enterprises", which combines the tools to monitor and identify hazardous conditions and change management tools in the internal environment of the enterprise and in dealing with the subjects of the environment.