The article is topical enough since for further development of the agricultural sector in the republic it is urgent to comprehensively analyze some social consequences of the agrarian reforms and adaptational patterns of the population. Adaptation here shall be understood to mean processes individuals and social groups experience to accommodate themselves to varied environment, some permanent changes caused by market and democratic reforms. And those are labor related economic factors that virtually play first fiddle. Nowadays rural settlements of the republic basically experience financial hardships and can be characterized by poor economic potential which results in the lack of investment resources required for production development and creation of jobs. Consequently, labor migration has increased in the region, in search of job opportunities rural residents leave their villages, the republic. Almost half of the informants (48 %) have travelled away (or intended to) to start a business of their own or purchase a dwelling in the republic. For the purposes of the study we shall designate this as a positive indicator of social adaptation. Since the informants have certain life plans, they think over opportunities for success and make steps on the basis of available material and social capital. The paper uses the results of 2016/2017 opinion surveys conducted by employees of the Department in 2016 and 2017 in rural areas of the region. It analyzes assessments of the current economic conditions, topical social problems and social well-being given by rural residents. The increased state support of rural manufacturers and enhanced opportunities for obtaining credit resources gradually improved conditions for the national agri-food sector. So, villagers now could develop household plots and farming enterprises. Rural dwellers gradually adapt to market conditions. The obtained results show that over half of the informants (51,9 %) characterize the economic situation in the republic as ‘positive’, while some individuals would describe it as ‘negative’ (44 %). And those are optimists who create the social mental determination to overcome difficulties and sustain political stability. Most informants (84 %) assessed their personal economic conditions as poor or hardcore poor. This signifies that a large part of the rural population never adapted to the market society. Those people are still dependent upon wages and transfer payments of the government that help disadvantaged groups survive the tough time of crisis. There still remain quite a number of unsettled problems related to labor market, low wages, absence of village-forming enterprises, investment resources, and poor social infrastructure required for the development of rural territories and adaptation of villagers to market conditions.
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