Cluster Approach to Organizing Vertically Integrated Struc-Tures of the Regional Agro-Industrial Complex

At the current stage the integration development in the agro-industrial sector is contradictory. The legislation uncertainty complicates the economic relations between integrated entities and market subjects. It is necessary to consider rationalization of the production structure, optimization of the organizational structure of technological food systems and the development of an economic mechanism for sharing the results of joint activities as the main areas of the economic policy within the integration process. Now it is necessary to pay special attention to organizing integrated structures based on the cluster approach, which will improve the investment climate of industries related to the production of the region's agro-industrial complex, and stimulate innovative processes (Smykov, 2007). When forming efficient and competitive agricultural production that can ensure the coun-try's food security, such integrated structures as agroholdings involved in agricultural production, processing and sale on the basis of holding relations are important. The formation of these integrated structures has its own fundamental features and difficulties. Regional conditions for the development of the agro-industrial complex are as important here (Ushachev, 2011).