Agro-industrial cluster of the region: potential participants and management structure

All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Soybean, Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, Russia

^* Corresponding author: VolkovaElAl@rambler.ru

Abstract

The article presents the results of the research work carried out to identify potential participants in the agro-industrial cluster of the Amur region and designs the management structure of the agro-industrial cluster of the Amur region with the definition of the main blocks that make up the external and internal environment of the cluster. The description of potential cluster participants is given. This includes the core of the cluster, which in-cludes a scientific and educational unit and a production unit consisting of representatives of the community of priority sectors of the cluster. In the structure of the internal environment of the agro-industrial cluster of the Amur region, specialized and infrastructure blocks are identified. The func-tions of the first block are performed by the specialized structural divisions of the My Business center. The second block is represented by enterprises of technical support, supply of fertilizers, plant protection products, biolog-ical products, agricultural organizations for the breeding of farm animals and elite seed farms. The external environment of the cluster is represented by an administrative block consisting of the regional authorities, an auxiliary block consisting of financial institutions, as well as a public block consisting of non-profit organizations that contribute to the popularization and infor-mation support of the cluster development. Design management structure and the proposed composition of the relevant units of internal and external environment of the agro-industrial cluster will facilitate the implementation of cluster policy in the Amur region, the achievement of target indicators of the strategy of development of territorial cluster of small and medium entre-preneurship in the agro-industrial complex of the Amur region, approved by the resolution of the government of the Amur region.