The article conducts a complex study of the problems of development of all components of the agrarian infrastructure, such as elements of wholesale trade (commodity exchanges, wholesale markets, trading houses, fairs and auctions), enterprises of retail trade of agro-industrial products (city and rural markets, retail outlets, and public catering companies), transportation companies, warehouses, communication companies, bodies of standardisation and certification, financial establishments, research and development institutes, and educational and information establishments, and identifies priorities of the state regulatory policy in this sphere. It justifies urgency of the study of the infrastructural component as a means of communication between subjects of the agrarian market, correct and proper use of which results in reduction of operation expenses of agrarian companies and, as a result, leads to increase of competitiveness of domestic products in domestic and foreign markets and gradual development of agriculture. It offers a complex definition of the agrarian infrastructure, analyses main problems that hinder development of the infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, and justifies priority directions of reformation of complex elements of infrastructure of the agro-industrial complex.
