The article reviews research and theoretical problems of the nature and content management mechanism in agricultural production, classification features are the components of this mechanism, the proposed approaches to improve and implement in practice, forms and means of influencing the nature of economic reproduction in the proposed mechanism of management. The economic essence of the concept of "economic mechanism". The author considers the problem of the functioning of the economy in agriculture in the context of food security of the population. The structure of the economic mechanism and its main components and features of the functioning of the modern business environment, taking into account the processes of globalization in the world economy.
Key words: mechanism, economic mechanism, the economic mechanism, forms, methods, functions, leverage, structure, management.