The review of foreign experience of development of agro-industrial production and State support in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Australia, EU is presented. The author of the article em-phasizes that foreign concept of management of agri production is based on State regulation, support of the activities of agricultural enterprises and economic self-government. The policy of development of rural areas of the EU, the tasks of State regulation of the agricultural sector in de-veloped countries, the experience of the United Kingdom, the United States and France in the sys-tem of economic self-government have been considered. The share of the cooperative sector in rural economy of the EU countries and main indicators of the development of EU agricultural co-operatives have been determined. The widespread types of farming cooperation in Europe, measures of direct and indirect subsidization of agroindustrial complex in foreign countries, the policy of agricultural prices and farm incomes, the extent of the State interference in the econom-ic activity of the AIC entities have shown.