-Improving the competitiveness of the country and regions' agriculture is a solution to the problems of its further development. It should be noted that a sustainable and stable development of agriculture can be achieved only through the government support measures implementation. Insurance premiums State subsidization is the financial instrument, which does not contradict the World Trade Organization requirements. At present, the State-supported agricultural insurance conditions do not provide adequate interest among agricultural producers. The article is devoted to consideration of major aspects of agricultural insurance in the context of global transformations. We determined the reducing demand for Statesupported agricultural insurance and made an attempt to systematize the causes behind this phenomenon. The study of indicators of agricultural insurance in the Volgograd region was carried out using time series analysis. Special attention is given to a new instrument in agricultural insurance such as a "unified" subsidy. The result of destabilizing conditions in the organization of the system of agricultural insurance in the context of granting subsidies was a radical deterioration in the market. The unadapted subsidy system has resulted in substantial agricultural insurance volumes fall. The main problems in the allocation of subsidies from the federal budget to the regions are identified. We have considered a plausible course of agricultural insurance development.

High debt overburden and insufficiency of own funds of small and medium businesses in agriculture is a disincentive condition for attracting new financial resources and implementing the necessary investment projects.Association in agricultural cooperatives gives additional opportunities for business development, increase of profitability of production, creation of new jobs, and enhancement of life in rural areas. Combining efforts, farmers can much easier get access to modern agricultural machinery; to arrange the processing of products and their storage; to ensure the guaranteed sale of goods; to solve organizational and legal issues.In recent years, agricultural cooperation has been supported by the state at both the Federal and regional levels. The article is concerned with the main aspects of the development of agricultural cooperation of the Volgograd region. Special attention is paid to such innovation as the implementationof the Federal project "Support system for farmers and development of rural cooperation" in the framework of the national project "Small and medium enterprises and support for individual entrepreneurship». Competence Center in the field of development of agricultural cooperation recently established in the region, has been identified as a key guide on the arrangement and carrying out of the cooperative activities, obtaining existing measures of state support. The paper studies the matters of possible course of development of agricultural cooperation of the region.