State Policy in the Agrarian Sphere

The active participation of the state in the production process of the entire food complex is characteristic of any country with a developed market system. For all their apparent independence, the farmer, the merchant, and the processor of agricultural produce each reckon with state agricultural and food policy. Moreover, the measures taken by the state to maintain the balance between supply and demand, to protect the domestic producer, and to effect structural and social reforms in the countryside are of not only an economic but also an extra-economic, administrative nature.