The main goal of this article is the definition of economical essence of material and technical base of agricultural enterprise components and reasoning of the ways for their reproduction on innovative basis.

In present context the topicality of the research on formation and effective usage of material and technical base (MTB) of farms is increasing due to the violation of the balance between structural elements of MTB, the conditions of its functioning and reproduction, the level of perception of various innovations, high adaptability to changing environment.

It was determined that the economical essence of material and technical base is closely related to understanding of productive forces. The difference between material and technical base of agriculture and actual agricultural production is that the production is dialectical unity of productive forces and production relations, material and technical base – it is only an element of productive forces based on which the production relations between subjects of productive process are made.

It is pointed out that in its natural composition material and technical base includes tools and objects of labour (machines, equipment and other hardware, industrial and recreational buildings, working and breeding livestock, plant protection, pesticides, seeds, feeds, raw materials, fuel). Natural resources (water, etc.) are used in the course of its functioning. All elements of material and technical base are integrated into one or another technological system based on certain forms of production organization. In formation of MTB a defining role among the means of production belongs to instruments of labour. As instruments improve technical equipment, the work is improved as well changing the role of employees in the manufacturing process.
A complex evaluation of land properties, namely instruments and objects of labour can be shown in MTB. It is determined by relation and interdependence of natural properties of land and material and technical resources. It is known, for example, that soil fertility is influenced not only by climate, terrain, nature of humidification, but it also depends on the application of fertilizers, the use of intensive technologies and natural landscape.

Attention is drawn to the fact that within classical approach structural components of MTB of agricultural production are considered, namely their partial composition, but insufficient attention is paid to the issues of adaptive use in various scientific and technical terms. The synthesis of classical and innovation-oriented approaches to development and use of material and technical base of agricultural production allows to consider this category in dialectical unity of the content (land, basic production assets, tangible working capital) and form of material and technical base usage (industrial technology), considering conformity of structural elements with scientifically substantiated standards, strategic and programmatic indicators of MTB development, the innovative process should be the main driving force.

Generalized MTB element structure of agricultural enterprises includes land resources and their quality characteristics, topography, soil conditions, size; fixed assets – active and passive, productive and non-productive; working capital and tangible elements; information resources and innovative potential of MTB, which are referred to their ability to perform tasks that ensure the achievement of innovation objective, namely the readiness to realize reforms and implementation of innovations across the whole spectrum of components. The innovative potential largely depends on amount and quality of informative resources presented by scientific, technical, economic and other information. Considering the complex nature of this MTB phenomenon, it is necessary to use a systematic approach, identify key structural subsystems of its formation and usage. Formation of resources means that normative filling of material and technical tools will meet the needs of agricultural consumers.

It was noted that the most important specific feature of material and technical base of agriculture is an obligatory inclusion to its composition elements of farmland and living organisms (animals, birds, plants). Land, as a factor of MTB, acts as an active tool of agricultural production and its most important real factor and a necessary material condition of labour process. Land has dualistic nature as it may be referred to the natural resources and to the main production assets of agriculture, which is a crucial part of the MTB resources. Reproduction of MTB provides its restoration and expansion on a new scientific and technological basis through the implementation of innovative products and technologies that should meet the needs of modern agricultural producers. Due to this, priority ways of formation of structural agriculture MTB elements on the basis of innovation are proposed in this article.

Keywords: material and technical base, fixed assets, expanded reproduction, innovative approach.