Subject This article discusses the issues of improvement of organizational and economic relations in the dairy products sub-complex of the region. Objectives The article aims to develop proposals and recommendations for the improvement of organizational and economic relations in the dairy products sub-complex of the region and define their prospective directions of development. Methods For the study, we used monographic, abstract-logical, analytical, and other methods. Results The article offers concrete variants of distribution of proceeds from realization of dairy production to the final consumer between the main participants of the market of milk and dairy production. It substantiates the concept of creation of a branch cluster in the dairy products sub-complex of the Penza oblast. Conclusions The organizational and economic mechanism of the cluster functioning should be based on the distributive relations, so that the agricultural organizations, processing enterprises and trade network enterprises were interested in the overall outcomes, taking into account each participant's contribution to their achievement.
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