«Green markets» as a component of infrastructure of food market

Abstract

Objective. Assess the current state of functioning of retail, wholesale and retail food and wholesale markets for agricultural products as part of the market infrastructure of the food market and propose ways to improve their activities. Methods. Dialectical and abstract-logical; Induction and deduction; System analysis and synthesis; Monographic; Comparative analysis; Statistical and economic. Results The concept of creating wholesale "green markets" is considered, which will allow to increase the share of the agricultural commodity producer at the final price of the product and optimize transaction costs by eliminating from the market process ineffective intermediaries. Conclusions On the basis of generalization of domestic and foreign experience of functioning of food markets, measures aimed at improving their activity as a component of the market infrastructure of the food market are proposed.