The Russian economy is in urgent need of stable agriculture. There are various measures to support it, one of which is the provision of subsidies from the budgets of various levels. State financing is limited, and the procedure of its distribution is immensely important. At this stage of formation, development, and improvement of control over this instrument functioning, the mechanism for assessing the efficiency of the use of funds received or the selection of farms will be relevant. The study covers the approach to the numerical measurement of the efficiency of agriculture in the regions and the budgetary role of this indicator in terms of functioning of the mechanism for subsidizing the agro-industrial complex, as well as the creation of a possible model for linking subsidies and efficiency. The author calculated the coefficient of efficiency of the grain economy of the Krasnodar Krai regions using absolute and relative values. The calculations are based on the statistical basic indicators of farms of all categories, such as profitability (A profit (loss) before taxation according to the financial statements in the “Crop production 01.1+01.2+01.3” section / A revenue in the “Crop production 01.1+01.2+01.3” section), crop productivity. The author analyzed the current distribution of budgetary allocations: carried out the assessment of the relationship between the volumes of the subsidies provided and the coefficient of the performance efficiency of the districts. The level of interrelation of indicators is determined using the correlation coefficient. Based on the results of the calculations, no dependence was identified between the data arrays, in other words, the amount of budget funds provided is not directly dependent on the performance efficiency of the grain economy of the Krasnodar Krai.