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Key features of the country's food security status that is caused by the war and particularly by the decrease of the population's purchasing power, increase of the portion of their expenses for groceries; reduction of the farming lands areas and decrease in number of entrepreneurs; worsening of the indicators of country's ranking in the Global Index of Food Security are revealed and critically evaluated in the article. Various measures of the administrative organizations and institutions to ensure stability of the national food market are characterized. Special attention is stressed on the fact that the liquidation of the institutional basis in food industry is one of the destructive factors that contributes to a complete devastation of agribusiness with the closed cycle of production, export that is focused on raw materials, GDP losses due to the missed food production with added value. The perspective to deepen the processing of the raw materials and expansion of the agri-processing power are proven. In the context of the long-term food self-sustainability of the various regions of Ukraine the expediency to develop a complex program to restore the food production based on the innovative modernization of the business processes and digital capabilities is substantiated. It is stated that in the situation of dynamic challenges it is required for Ukraine to correct the status of the food security in ascending direction based on the determination agrarians' potential modernization. Based on the research results various stabilization measures are suggested and it is concluded that the use of the advanced technologies in food, processing industries and in agriculture will turn food safety into the modulator of the scientific and technological progress of the country. Transition to achieving long-term goals under current uncertainty and in post-war period will require coordination of joint efforts, powerful investment streams with orientation on foreign partners. Transformational processes will change the own model: proper production of the wide range of food products with improved quality standards and under established control of the final product to meet the international standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Results of the assessment of the economy sectors development as a whole and by regional distribution are presented in the article. Methods of analysis and synthesis, analytical generalizations, graphical and statistical, as well as mathematical modeling are used. The main trends of changes in the quantitative and qualitative indicators of assessment are identified. In terms of the share of profitable enterprises, the situation has a positive trend in the construction sector of the economy and is observed in large and medium-sized enterprises. In the segment of small business, the activity of enterprises of the assessed sectors of the economy is characterized by an increase in the share of unprofitable financial results of economic entities, due to the lack of opportunities to compete with large and medium-sized businesses. An increase in the service sector in 2020 was recorded due to the regrouping of development in the direction of increasing the possibility of conducting economic activity in intermediary spheres with a simultaneous decline in the priority of sectors that directly create the consumer product. It is proposed to diagnose the effectiveness of the economic entities functioning by factors, taking into account structural changes in the size of the business and their impact on the resulting indicator. The results of the assessment are presented, taking into account structural changes in the types of business by size, by quantitative indicators of assessment. The obtained assessment results make it possible to state the slowing down of the processes of economic development by quantitative factors of impact, taken into account in terms of the trend of changes that occurred in the period 2016-2020. The determined changes in the factor of priority of business choice by size are characterized by a declining trend of deviations in all its areas, but in small business there have been slight positive changes in the direction of increasing sales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]