Business games in teaching commodity science disciplines

The purpose of the article is to consider the practice of using business games in teaching commodity science disciplines. The article examines the theoretical and methodological aspects of business games as one of the methods of innovative pedagogical learning technologies. The necessity and expediency of their use in the study of commodity science are indicated, personality traits that develop in the process of conducting business games are established, a classifi cation of business games is given, a brief description of their individual types is presented, the stages of conducting interactive and competitive games are described, and the examples of the implementation of individual stages of a business game in the commodity science of fruits and vegetables are given.