Abstract:
The cereal industry in the aspect of ensuring the food security of the country, is a strategically important component of the grain food market, but requires solving a number of important problems in achieving sustainable development, increasing production volumes and increasing export potential on the world market. The production of cereals remains a problem industry, as demonstrated by the significant fluctuation and high level of prices for the main types of cereals. Mixed research methods were used in the analysis of cereal crop market data. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was a dialectical method of cognition, a systematic approach to the use of general provisions of economic theory. Conducted studies of cereal crop cultivation in Ukraine evidenced that gross yield of buckwheat increases on an intensive basis - with a decrease of 11.3 per cent, an increase in yield of 21 per cent; tends to decrease in gross millet yield (62.3 per cent) under the influence of reduced acreage and yields, rice production remains stable. Growing and processing of cereals are concentrated in the Eastern and central regions of Ukraine, and rice - in the Southern part. Increase the efficiency of cereal crop production in Ukraine can be achieved through the use of production reserves associated with the intensification and optimization of the organizational and economic mechanism of the industry
