Improvement of Institutional Regulation of the Ukrainian Market of Milk and Dairy Products During the War and Post-War Periods

Topicality. The market of milk and dairy products is of strategic importance for ensuring food security of the country in the war and post-war periods. The importance of this market is determined by the high social importance of dairy products, which are an important component of the population's diet. At the same time, the institutional support for the functioning of the market of milk and dairy products does not fully meet the conditions and challenges of wartime, which requires additional research.Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to determine the institutional problems of the development of the domestic market of milk and dairy products, to develop proposals for improving the institutional regulation of the relevant market in the war and post-war periods.Materials and Methods. The results of the theoretical generalization of scientific works and methodological approaches in the field of the dairy market, which are highlighted in publications of a fundamental and applied nature, as well as the analysis of the norms of the current legislation regulating legal relations between the subjects of the dairy market, form the informational and methodological basis of the study. Methods of systemic, structural-logical, comparative, and statistical analysis were used to solve the tasks.Research results. The study identified institutional problems in the development of the domestic market of milk and dairy products, including: lack of regulatory and technological regulation of the use of lower-class dairy raw materials; imperfect state support mechanisms for the export of dairy products with added value; lack of state regulation of the production and sale of competitive plant-based dairy products. A structural analysis of the types of state support for the dairy market was conducted; ensuring state control and supervision in the field of production, processing, sale, export and import of dairy products; international cooperation in the field of safety and quality of milk, dairy raw materials and dairy products. The directions of state policy regulating the activity of milk market subjects are summarized.The peculiarities of using the mechanism of public-private partnership for the development of the dairy market of Ukraine in the war and post-war periods are determined. Attention is focused on the need for state participation in supporting commodity producers in the subject-object dimension. A conceptual idea regarding the application of the public-private partnership mechanism in solving the problem of reducing unrealized grain remains by using it in the fodder base of the raw market sector through state procurement for technological animal breeding and dairy raw material production is offered. It is substantiated that in the post-war period, a promising mechanism for restoring and modernizing the market of milk and dairy products can be a public-private partnership based on state orders.Conclusion. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the development of theoretical foundations for the improvement of national legislation in order to regulate the development of the dairy market in the conditions of security risks and internal transformations, solving the strategic tasks of recovery in the war and post-war periods. The practical significance of the obtained results is determined by the possibility of using scientific and applied principles of research by authorities at different levels in the course of improving the mechanisms of regulating the dairy market in conditions of instability.