Cooperation of small farms in agriculture complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The article presents the organizational and economic substantiation of the necessity and importance of the development of agricultural cooperatives in the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main factors hindering its development and spread are revealed. The features of the establishment and functioning of the existing forms of agricultural cooperatives (cooperatives, rural consumer cooperatives, rural consumer cooperatives of water users, agricultural partnerships), positive and negative tendencies of development are defined. On the basis of the analysis and the state of development of agricultural cooperation of the Republic the necessity of improving the legal framework, the current mechanism of the state support, the formation of stimulating factors combining small farms in agricultural cooperatives and other measures for their effective functioning is proposed. The urgency and priority of co-operation process of small farms with the aim of stabilizing the agribusiness economy is disclosed. The main provisions of the new Law of RK "On agricultural cooperatives," goals and objectives of the recommended co-operation models, the benefits of association of small farmers in agricultural cooperatives, as well as the expected re-results from the implementation of the measures for the development of this process, contributing to solving the problems of small-scale nature of agricultural production, the availability of small forms of managing state support measures and others are offered.