The dissertation is devoted to the formation of theoretical and methodological and applied principles of strategic development of the organic food market in Ukraine, which allows to optimize the development of national, regional and sectoral strategies of socio-economic development.
The current state of development of agricultural and food markets is analyzed. It is established that Ukraine's GDP in 2020 amounted to 156 billion dollars. USA, in the GDP of the agro-industrial sector is 17%, 5% of Ukraine's population employed in the agricultural sector. The agri-food sector occupies the lion's share of Ukraine's exports, which is estimated at 45%. Ukraine owns 41.3 million hectares of agricultural land, of which 32.7 hectares are arable land and the total percentage of plowed land is 54%. It is determined that the economic mechanism of stimulating the development of the organic food market should be understood as an integrated system of interaction of economic entities in the organic food market together with logistics and agricultural and agricultural market based on regulatory and legal support and institutional entities (clusters, cooperatives, associations), which has certain methods (fiscal, budget, advisory, property), uses typical tools ("fair price", investment, innovation, awareness of the feasibility of production and consumption of organic products), adheres to established principles (compliance with needs) present and future generations, balanced use and restoration of natural resources, competence, efficiency of cooperation, responsibility, reliability and objectivity) and meets the goals of sustainable development. In accordance with the proposed methodological approaches, the potential of the regions of Ukraine in the field of organic production was assessed, their rating was formed and the main strategies were formulated. According to the results of calculations in the sector of the most optimal conditions for the development of organic production as of the end of 2019 was Kyiv, Odessa and Cherkasy regions. The strategy of forming a regional model of organically oriented multidisciplinary agriculture is appropriate for these regions. This will create the preconditions for organic food production, organic livestock and related sectors of environmentally oriented economic activities. The development of an innovative component for the implementation of SMART-specialization projects is possible. The sector with the least favorable conditions in the context of the analysis combines Sumy and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, where the existing potential and its structure does not allow for a comprehensive transition of farms to organic technologies for agricultural production. In other regions, combined strategies should be used.
