Regulation of the market in cereals as a basis for ensuring national food security.The authors pay special attention to the regulations of the State regarding the cereals sector, as a condition to ensuring national food security for meeting the needs of producers and consumers. Various interventions taken by the Government of the Republic of Moldova have an important impact on the cereals sector, including: efficient use of fixed capital investments by cereals producers, rational use of strategic cereals reserve, regulatory interventions in production-goods and wholesale purchase, regulatory interventions in cereals export-import, improving budgetary policy by the means of facility and subsidy system in order to support the procurement program of seeds and modern agriculture equipment, innovation of improvement mechanism of the social safety network to ensure the access of the most vulnerable segments of the population to cheap bread.