The governmental regulation of the agricultural sector represents state's influence on producing, processing and distribution of products and raw materials, as well as funding, insurance with material resources, technical and technological potential. The governmental regulation is one of the most important conditions of the agri-food complex stability and development, as welfare factor and insurer of country's food security. Nowadays, the relevance of these issues can be explained as a result of changes in economic basis and mechanisms of functioning not only of the agri-food complex, but of the whole national economy. The possible answers to the difficulties from the agri-food sector could be found in the existence of a long term, consecutive and carefully weighted state policy.