Metrics of efficiency indicators of state support for small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector

The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence and features of metrics of indicators of the effectiveness of state support for small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector of the economy in modern conditions. Research methods. The methodological basis of the study was a set of methods of scientific knowledge of the system and mechanism of state support for small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. The achievement of the goal was facilitated by general scientific methods: empirical research (measurement, comparison, and observation), theoretical research (analysis and synthesis) as well as local (specific) analysis of situations (computational-constructive). Research results. It has been established that state support is one of the components of the state regulation mechanism; a system of preferential financing of priority industries and small entrepreneurship has been established; a system of measures to increase the adaptability and competitiveness of small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector of the economy of a controlling, executive, legislative nature. It was found that the well-known methods for assessing the economic efficiency of state support for entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector could be combined into groups of methods: structural-territorial and structuralcategorical; macroeconomic national; macroeconomic supranational. It has been substantiated that the set of indicators for achieving the goals of state support is reflected in the metric of indicators. Various researchers include various metrics of indicators in the system for assessing the effectiveness of state support for small business in the agricultural sector. Methods for assessing the effectiveness of state support for small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector can be combined into groups of qualitative and quantitative assessment of budgetary, social, economic efficiency. Scientific novelty. The essence and features of metrics of indicators of the effectiveness of state support of small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector of the economy in modern conditions is disclosed and a methodological approach to substantiating the main directions of modification of state support, which contributes to solving the problems of functioning of small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector of the economy, is proposed. Attention is focused on the main components of expenditures for programs of state support for the development of entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector for 2021-2023. Practical significance. It is advisable to use the methodological approach as a base in the system for analyzing indicators of state support for small entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector according to the statistical reporting of business entities and macro indicators of the socio-economic state of the country. Tabl.: 2. Figs.: 1. Refs.: 27.