The article examines and systematizes the basic principles of the development of various forms of management in the agricultural sector of Russia in the new economic reality. In this paper, special attention is paid to the principles of the development of integrated agricultural formations, the vector of which is aimed at the accelerated provision of food independence of the country and the implementation of an export-oriented strategy. In the framework of the present article, the above principles have been modified to reflect new economic reality and augmented the next group of principles of formation and development of various forms of management in the agricultural sector APK: mezhvedomstvennoi and complexity, the scientific justification for the introduction of technology, optimality and adequacy of the amount of state support, individual approach and differentiation of measures of state support, depending on the form of management and type of reproduction. It is proved that the principles of state regulation act in the conditions of the new economic reality as a set of objective economic laws, rules of conscious state support of socio-economic processes in the agro-industrial complex, which determine the directions of development of economic entities.