Semeynyy sektor agrarnoy ekonomiki v nastoyashchee vremya yavlyaetsya vazhnym proizvoditelem sel'skokhozyaystvennoy produktsii. Znachenie semeynykh khozyaystv takzhe opredelyaetsya tem, chto oni vypolnyayut pomimo proizvodstvennoy, ryad vazhnykh sotsial'nykh funktsiy, sposobstvuyut sokhraneniyu sel'skogo uklada zhizni, kotoryy yavlyaetsya nositelem natsional'nykh traditsiy i tsennostey. Problemy semeynykh khozyaystv yavlyayutsya predmetom nauchnykh diskussiy uzhe dlitel'noe vremya. No vse zhe ostayutsya maloizuchennymi novye yavleniya i tendentsii ikh khozyaystvennoy deyatel'nosti v rynochnykh usloviyakh. Protsess formirovaniya bazovykh i infrastrukturnykh institutov agrarnoy ekonomiki rynochnogo tipa v Rossii vse eshche prodolzhaetsya i net yasnosti, kakie instituty sokhranyatsya, a kakie sleduet sozdat' zanovo primenitel'no k rossiyskoy sotsial'no-istoricheskoy real'nosti. V rabote rassmotreny sushchnost', sovremennoe sostoyanie i puti povysheniya dokhodov semeynykh khozyaystv. Prednaznachena dlya rabotnikov regional'nykh i munitsipal'nykh organov upravleniya, razrabatyvayushchikh i realizuyushchikh programmy podderzhki razvitiya semeynykh khozyaystv; prepodavateley i studentov agrarnykh vuzov.