The purpose of the article is to reveal theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the formation of organizational and economic model of family farming in Ukraine, and to characterize institutional principles of its development as a form of management.Research methods. Basis for theoretical and methodological construction of the research was based on the general scientific methods of scientific cognition, as well as principles of interdisciplinary scientific search within basics of the institutional methodology. Methodological basis for fundamental constructions of problem development is the scientific works of foreign and domestic scholars, positioned in the field of economic discourse with projections of the institutional theory foundations. Applied aspects of the problematic discussion were based on the systematization of knowledge regarding the definition of institutional priorities for the formation of family farming and socio-economic effects of farming development as a special economic way. Application of methodological apparatus of the institutional theory made it possible to identify peculiarities, to determine an organizational effectiveness of “game rules” formed by the state and market, which ensured the approval of typological set of family farms in practice as a nationally-identical model of institutionalized economic order. Economic calculations made it possible to methodologically substantiate aspects of the current state of affairs, to determine possible dynamics, and to characterize the institutional perspective of the development of family farming as a particular model of rural management. Research results. Institutional specificity of positioning family farming as a mechanism of management based on individual and family values of the organisation of structures for creating benefits in the agricultural sector was theoretically and methodically substantiated. The world tendencies and global tradition of presenting family business in the countryside with comparison of the practice of the national economic complex, as well as the identification of specific institutional and legal support were considered. Modern conditions of development, factors of institutional support of family farming in Ukraine, and background of the formation of its organizational and economic model were analysed. Conceptual projection of principles of family farm functioning with the design of priority institutional improvements of a process was carried out, taking into account the national-identical priorities, mental behavioural characteristics of the modern Ukrainian peasant. Elements of scientific novelty. Aspects of institutional analysis of the formation-development of family farms within the existing socio-economic structure in rural areas were further developed. There were offered institutional improvements for foundations of formation of organizational and economic model of family farming in Ukraine with substantiation of proposals on priorities of the state policy and economic organisation. Practical significance. Some provisions can be used in the development of legal rules for institutional stimulation of the development of family farms, finalisation of draft normative acts on legal issues, concepts, programs for the implementation of organisation-economic and social foundations for the formation of family farming in Ukraine. Priority was given to the usage of scientific discourse in agro-economic research. Tabl.: 4. Refs.: 26