The paper is devoted to the current trends of financing small and medium-sized businesses at the early stages of development. Expected and real sources of financing are discussed. Internal and external problems of start-ups development are analysed.
The problems of the state financial support of agrofood production in Ukraine are considered. Problems of credit provision of the agrarian sector of the economy are the lack of credit resources to ensure expanded reproduction, high cost of bank loans; complexity of procedures for obtaining loans; the impossibility of provision of land for agricultural purposes. It is necessary to improve the directions and mechanisms of state financial support for agricultural producers.