The article considers agrarian policy - an integral part of the state economic policy in the field of agriculture and agro-industrial production.  The main priorities of the agrarian policy of Russia and the direction of the market reform of the agroindustrial complex are outlined.  A component of the state's economic policy in the sphere of agriculture and agro-industrial production has been singled out.  Issues are discussed that bear the character of a long-term effect on the Russian economy and, in particular, on its agro-industrial complex, on the successful development of which the country's food security and the living standards of the population depend.