BALANCED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL TERRITORIES – MAIN TASK OF LAND REFORM

Abstract

Annotation.  The article analyses the main problems of development of rural territories in the conditions of decentralization concerning modern realities. Rural territories traditionally took special place in the formation of demographic, economic, resource-production and social-humanitarian potential of Ukraine. The present stage of social development of rural territories concerning change of the method of agricultural production and introduction of industrial technologies of growing  agricultural  crops and cattle care is characterized by the gradual extinction of “non-perspective” rural settlements. The solving of rural territories development problems must include the following measures: the formation of regulatory framework in the sphere of rural population employment, the creating of powerful consulting service, professional-education training of personnel, which will increase the quality of workforce, that will allow to save and create the new working places, will promote the development of entrepreneurship and independent employment of population.