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Abstract
The overall aim of the paper is to analyse the distribution of state agricultural support in Ukraine with the purpose of drawing
up proposals on how to make it more objective-oriented. The investigation is based on the results of a case study conducted in Zdolbuniv
district3, in the Rivne region of Ukraine, where interviews with local agricultural experts were held. The research is founded on the Linear
Programming (LP) methodological approach, which is applied to calculate an objective-oriented agricultural budget allocation. This approach
also integrates judgements from district agricultural experts. The outcomes show that agricultural support should have been redistributed in
a slightly different way from the district perspective. However, the calculated changes in most cases match with the overall development
directions in the Ukrainian agricultural support policy. Furthermore, the developed model has proved to be a useful and, at the same time,
quite simple tool in application support, and one which could have been used by the agricultural decision-makers in the process of the
distribution of agricultural support.