Trends and perspectives of development of personal peasant households

The purpose of the article is to consider existing problems and perspectives of development of personal peasant households, taking into account formation of family farms and expansion of entrepreneurial activity in terms of the middle class formation among the rural population. Research methodology. In the research have been used the following methods: the dialectical method of cognition for an analysis of scientific works on the problems of development of personal peasant households in Ukraine, as well as concerning foreign experience; the method of empirical research on assessment of the current state and development of the research object. Research results. There’ve been justified theoretical and methodological principles and peculiarities of the development of personal peasant households in the agrarian sector of Ukraine have been defined. Perspectives of its institutionalization into the organized system of market through transformation into family farms in particular have been outlined. There’ve been made an evaluation of the state of “personal” sector of the agrarian economy with a definition of its resource potential, as well as an analysis of the management results. Elements of scientific novelty. The further development have gained the theoretical positions on determination of the place and role of personal peasant households in the agrarian sector, as well as outlined prospects, criteria, elements of the mechanism of their formalized representation on the market as family farms. Practical significance. The developed theoretical and methodological positions make up a methodological basis for a forming of methodological approaches to development of program documents and introduction of regulation policy of entrepreneurial activity in the segment of agrarian microentrepreneurship. Tabl.: 3. Figs.: 1. Refs.: 25.