EN
State interventionism today is inextricably linked to organisational processes and the coordination of business activity in the market economy. State intervention in agriculture is policy that actively influences the economic and social processes that occur in this sector. The main reasons the state intervenes in agriculture are that the markets related to agricultural are incomplete and imperfect, costs and exogenous effects come into play, there is a need to and usefulness in supplying the agricultural sector with public goods, as there is a need also to reduce the consequences of incomplete information (by e.g. using agricultural advisors) as well as problems concerning profit sharing. There are also reasons entrenched in the distinctive features of agricultural production that apply to particular production factors and the state of agriculture as well as the time of production. Selecting and ranking the aims of interventionism depend on macroeconomic conditions and the effects of the state’s operation, the place of agriculture in a country’s economy and cultural heritage, and political and economic stability.