Development of the system of information and consulting support of agrarian and industrial complex under the conditions of formationof the regional agri-food cluster (evidence from Omsk region)

The article presents the results of an assessment of the development program of the agrifood cluster of Omsk region in providing agricultural producers and other business units of the cluster with information and consulting services. For the development of the agrifood cluster 14 project initiatives have been developed. Along with financial, manufacturing and infrastructure measures, initiatives cover the issues of staffing and service of the cluster enterprises. An important distinctive feature of any cluster is its innovative orientation, aiming at new market niches. The complex analysis of the offered initiatives has shown that the ideology of the cluster is not fully realized. The cluster link providing scientific and technological transfer is atomized into the system of service centers for rendering services to agricultural producers. The innovative segment isn't realized in the project in an independent form. For the purpose of improvement of the program of the development of the agrifood cluster actions for improvement of the project initiatives by means of development of regional system of information and consulting services are offered. Within the cluster it is offered to create regional system of information and consulting service through transformation of the service centers. A regional information advice center created on the basis of Omsk SAU should become a link of this system. It is supposed that the project initiative of the agrifood cluster with the offered actions will allow to cover the majority of the agricultural enterprises of the region and considerable part of personal subsidiary farms with information and consulting service that will positively effect the dynamics of production of agrarian and industrial complex and providing the cluster enterprises with raw materials.