Abstract
Agriculture in the context of geopolitical challenges faced by the economies of many countries, including Kazakhstan, needs state support. The state implements a number of measures aimed at regulating the development of agriculture, information centers are opened, grants and subsidies are allocated to support beginning farmers. However, new conditions require not only financial and economic measures, but also the revision of existing theoretical and methodological mechanisms for the implementation of state aid both at the national and regional levels. The article studies the mechanisms of agricultural support through the application of both direct and indirect methods of economic impact of the state. The state support of agriculture covers various directions and the results of the study may be interesting for representatives of both republican and regional levels of government, whose activities are related to the allocation of funds in the form of state support. The need for state support of agriculture is objective, and this objectivity lies in the economic nature of the difference between the position of the agricultural producer and the position of all other market participants, because due to objective reasons agriculture in the free market is not competitive in comparison with other sectors of the economy.