This article examines matters relating to the training and retraining of highly skilled managers for the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Belarus. Outlines the problems of human resource capacity and suggested ways to improve the utilization of labour management executives and professionals organizations.

The article considers the essence and peculiarities of modern development of small entrepreneurship, its influencing factors: external and internal. Evaluate the effectiveness of the small entrepreneurship in agriculture, the measures for the revitalization of its development.

The main results of the research of the demographic situation in rural area of the Republic of Belarus are presented.

The analysis of the factors influencing logistics level in the state was conducted. The authors defined two groups of factors - external, influencing logistics and internal, inherent in the logistics system itself. The analysis of factors was carried out with underpinning their choice. The experts performed the rating assessment of factors with the help of paired comparison technique. As a result of the carried-out analysis external and internal factors were ranged on importance degree of their influence on logistics development.

It is shown that the use of general economic indicators cultivation of crop products (costs, margins and profits) in choosing the method of irrigation and the construction of the irrigation system is not always possible to answer unequivocally the question - what is the design of the irrigation system is most effective in a particular case. Ambiguity in the justification of the choice of the construction of the irrigation system can be eliminated by using the index of economic efficiency of irrigation, which is the ratio of revenue from the sale of yield increase obtained by irrigation to the overall costs incurred to obtain this gain (in the irrigation system maintenance, conducting irrigation, cleaning, transportation, revision, storage and sale of yield increase).

In this article proprietary classification of technical and economic features of tractor fleet of agricultural enterprises is proposed. Existing approaches to estimation of technical, agrotechnological and economic criteria are considered; also the new approach to calculation of amortization expenses and labour cost in AIC, based on nonlinear and nonsmooth functions, is offered. Besides, optional version of organization of intracompany system of initial data collection and computing for the subsequent solution of the problem of optimal structure and exploitation of machine and tractor fleet of agricultural enterprises is described.

The article deals with the international practice of domestic support of producers and exporters of agricultural products and foodstuffs. Special attention is given to the measures of financial support for agriculture in economically developed countries such as the EU, US and Canada. The issues of export incentive in the context of the international laws of foreign trade are considered.