REGIONAL SPECIFICITY OF COOPERATION PROCESSES IN THE AGRARIAN ECONOMY OF THE STAVROPOL TERRITORY
The article is devoted to the study of the regional features in the current state of agricultural cooperation, the identification of problems and the determination of its development prospects. Sustainable development of agriculture depends on the level of cooperative processes development, and the experience accumulated by global and domestic practice confirms the thesis that there are no prospects for the branch outside of cooperation. Strengthening cooperative relations is a strategically important factor in increasing the multifunctionality of rural areas and the development of domestic rural entrepreneurship at a qualitatively new level. The study of these problems indicates a high adaptability of the cooperative sector and the ability to self-organize. The article identifies the features of cooperative organizations in modern economic conditions and the functioning of various cooperative forms, there are studied and classified the main types of cooperatives, as well as an analyzes of the development level of agricultural production cooperatives in the Stavropol Territory is made. It has been established that the specificity of the agrarian sector forms the complex nature of cooperative relations: on the one hand, combining various resources of agricultural producers, and on the other, cooperation on a contractual and mutually beneficial basis, the organizational and economic bases of which are determined by the type of activity. The improvement directions of cooperative relationships and regulation of organizational and economic relations in industrial and consumer cooperatives of the region are proposed. The necessity of the formation of an agrarian cooperative cluster based on the existing branches of cooperation in the region is justified, and the prospects for the development of a cooperative agrarian economy system in the region are determined.