External Sanctions as Motivation to Develop Clusters Infrastructure in Agricultural Branches
External Sanctions as Motivation to Develop Clusters Infrastructure in Agricultural Branches

Summary/Abstract: Traditionally a high level of risks and ambiguous nature of the impact of external sanctions and limitations on the Russian agriculture shift focus in the agrarian policy from the monetary regulation to structural reforms. The authors consider the cluster policy to be one of their tools. The article hypothesizes the necessity to develop infrastructural cluster nuclei in various segments of the agro- food market. The research used the methods of modeling social and economic systems, systematic, problem, institutional, and SWOT analysis. As a result, the authors come to the conclusion that the applied aspects of implementing the infrastructural approach in the cluster policy have individual peculiarities for separate agricultural branches. It is stipulated by their operational and organizational specificity. The example of one agricultural branch – vegetable production – shows principles of forming cluster establishments, reveals risks of the sanctions policy and new opportunities for the internal Russian market, and systemizes elements of the industrial structure and structural and functional modeling of the infrastructure cluster nuclei in segments of the large- and small-sized agricultural business based on the results of the strategic analysis of the environment.

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