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The paper presents the influence of state policy of the Ukraine on the market changes in agriculture & food economy. It has been stated that it is necessary to build an active state policy to improve competitiveness of agriculture. The author underlines that, in order to achieve competitiveness on the institutional level in the agriculture & food economy sector we need the institutions which are able to carry out the following tasks: the dissemination of the newest knowledge among the subjects of the sector through the development of extension service, investments in the development of modern agribusiness, improvement of producers' incomes & stabilization of the agricultural market.