THE FORMATION OF REGIONAL CLUSTERS FOR PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING AGRICULTURAL ORES AS A FACTOR OF OPTIMIZING TRANSACTION AGROCHEMICAL PRODUCTION COSTS
The article deals with one aspect of the problematic provision of agriculture in remote regions of Russia mineral fertilizers. For example the Far East considers the creation of a systemic crisis regional agriculture, a system-forming factor for which was the inability to purchase sufficient quantities of mineral fertilizers due to the inefficient highly centralised oligopolistic market structure, oriented to the exploitation of mineral deposits in the European part of Russia and supply of fertilizers for export. The main problem of security of farmers in the Far East of mineral fertilizers is an excessive elongation of the logistics flows from Russian manufacturers, in this regard, effective and necessary, is the formation of regional enterprises for the production of agronomic and processing of ores of local fields with relatively low capital intensity, available to small and medium businesses. To achieve the maximum efficiency of such production requires the formation of a regional agrochemical industry cluster, competitive advantage of which is the reduction potential of transformational and transactional costs of production. The objective of this article is the study of transaction costs in the internal and external environment of the projected cluster formation, their classification and to examine the impact of long-term contractual relations on the decline. The cluster formation softens the market imperfection of technological innovation as the leading reserve the reproduction of technological equipment, lack of legal framework of economic relations, the instability of the innovation and investment climate. It improves the functioning level of investment and innovation attractiveness, ensures consistency of the conditions of production relations to the dynamics of supply and demand. Of particular importance is the modeling of contractual relations, which contributes to the understanding of the role of risks and their insurance. The rules of the contract within a cluster must be compatible with the interests and incentives to achieve mutual interest of the parties not less than the available for disparate firms. In the process of market agents interaction increases the importance of transaction costs that are shown in various forms and acquire a particular kind.