Introduction. Family-owned businesses operating in the agricultural sector are an integral part of agricultural production at all stages of its formation and development in almost every country in the world. Ukraine is no exception. Thus, the family forms of management during the years of collectivization and functioning of the collective farm system were presented by personal subsidiary households.
The development of these forms of management is devoted to the study of many leading domestic agricultural scientists. However, there are still issues that are not well understood, many of which are debatable. In particular, further studies of the essential characteristics of family forms of business in terms of the development of small forms of commodity production, the correlation of business and entrepreneurship, the identification of concepts and the definition of criteria for typing of subjects of agricultural economic structure, the assessment of economic potential for ownership and size, formation of land and property-economic relations, etc. deserve attention in the theoretical and methodological aspects.
Methods. The methodological and theoretical basis of the article is the legislation of foreign countries, the work of domestic and foreign scientists, as well as the results of their own research. The article uses the dialectical method of cognition and systematic approach, as well as the techniques of abstract and logical method, namely: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, analogy and comparison.
Results. On the basis of the systematization of the provisions of the theory of social psychology and management, using a sectoral approach to isolate certain components from a holistic system, the relationship of the activities of family forms of economy with human needs is considered, the cause and effect nature of meeting human needs and the role of family forms of economy in meeting the needs of households.
Discussion. Classification of peasant forms of management should be made depending on the levels of marketability, land use purpose and ownership. According to these approaches, family forms of business are divided into commodity, small commodity and non-commodity farms, and depending on the purpose and ownership, land plots of family farms should be classified as: estates, which are jointly owned by all family members; for running a family farm or in the form of a private individual entrepreneur belonging to one family member; for the conduct of private peasant farms belonging to individual family members on private property; for gardening and individual cottages belonging to one of the family members for the right of use; for the cultivation of horticulture and mowing, which are temporarily allocated for the right of use from the lands of communal property; for grazing livestock used as a public pasture owned by a rural community; leased or transferred to the household for free use of other land for agricultural purposes.
Keywords: economic forms, marketability, purpose, ownership, human needs, family farms, personal, peasant farms, subsistence farming.
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