摘要：The article is devoted to the problem of professional training of specialists of the agro-industrial complex for self-employment as a factor of competitive ability of personnel. The authors note the relevance of this problem both in theoretical terms and at the practical level. Based on the content analysis of the content of the regulatory database, it is shown that in the period from 2013 in the Russian Federation, farms and individual entrepreneurs in the fields of agro-industrial complex represent an upward trend. The article deals with the relationship between professional training of specialists and existing strategic problems of development of the Russian agro-industrial complex. The necessity of training specialists of the agro-industrial complex, contributing to openness, concretization, integration, differentiation, as well as targeting in professional activities, is justified. A set of professional training measures for self-employment of specialists in the agro-industrial complex can become one of the reasons for the growth of the country’s agriculturalindustry.
