Multi-structural rural economy is considered as a possible mechanism for coordinating state interests and the interests of producers of agricultural products in matters of socio-economic development of rural areas. For a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of each economic structure, the trends in the volume of production of the main types of livestock products that have manifested themselves during the transitional period of market reform, that is, more than thirty years, have been studied. At the same time, their impact on the preservation of soil fertility, environmental safety of production, employment of the rural population, the possibility of producing competitive agricultural products, etc. were also taken into account. Already in the initial period of reform, that is, in the first ten years, during the shock transition from a planned distribution system to market-based regulatory mechanisms, the balanced socio-economic process of rural development was destroyed. In this regard, the necessity and possibility of restoring this process through the proposed by a number of authors option (way) of organizing production in small forms of management and their cooperation at the stage of sale of manufactured products are considered. Using the example of the analysis of the current situation in the central Non-Chernozem region, a possible mechanism for coordinating state interests and the interests of agricultural producers in territorial development is shown.