SUMMARY
The purpose of this article is to study the experience of financial support of agricultural insurance system of Ukraine. Investigated peculiarities of innovative financial criteria of methodological approaches to the estimation of agrarian insurance methodical provision of process and technologies of agricultural insurance are evaluated. The content and principles of functioning of the mechanism of agricultural insurance are revealed. Methodology. The methodical approaches for determining the target indicators of a comprehensive assessment of the development of the agricultural insurance system and its criterion characteristics are developed. Agricultural insurance is considered an area of insurance that is technically demanding. The state is considered and trends and regularities of insurance development are revealed. An assessment of the suitability of any agricultural insurance service should take into account the production system; asset type; key risk factors that are subject to insurance; location of agricultural land; data availability; the size of the farm; sales channels. The research was based on the use of a systematic approach to the consideration of financial phenomena, on the fundamental positions of economic theory, system theory, the theory of finance, insurance management, etc. The quality in the hypostasis of the philosophical category characterizes the stable property of the phenomenon in the dynamics of its general development. Results. The practice and peculiarities of insurance protection of agricultural commodity producers are traced. The advantages and disadvantages of an assortment of insurance products are determined. The main internal and external factors influencing the mechanism of agricultural insurance have been identified. Practical implications. Deepened scientific ideas about the formation of the insurance policy. Unification is carried out according to different algorithms. This is due to the expediency of unifying the components for which the ranking is from the highest to the lowest. Value/originality. The essence of state support of agricultural insurance is determined. Innovative tariff policy is proposed and possibilities of application of non-traditional agricultural insurance products are revealed. The recommendations for determining the main landmarks and the dominant components of the development of agricultural insurance system development strategies have been formed. The conceptual platform for harmonization of the mechanism of agricultural insurance and improvement of its institutional and infrastructural component is substantiated.