“…This is largely due to the fact that, compared to large business structures, they have a fairly high organizational and functional flexibility, effective internal mechanisms for adapting to changes in the external environment, more efficiently use resources that may not be attractive for the large-scale production sector, play an important role in agricultural production, determining the further development of the agricultural sector and ensuring food security in certain regions of the Russian Federation. This determines the need to study important theoretical and practical issues related to government support and the assessment of its effectiveness for small businesses (Baimisheva, et al, 2019;Zhichkin, et al, 2021aZhichkin, et al, , 2021bZhichkin, et al, , 2021c.…”