evidence: The practical significance of the research results is that the implementation of the management mechanism for the development of the agro-cluster will allow obtaining the expected synergistic (economic, social, ecological) effect due to: increasing the level of the territories’ investment attractiveness; increasing revenues to budgets (regional, local) through the formation of a qualitatively new model of the regional economy, strengthening the competitive advantages of regions and increasing the economic capacity of territorial communities in conditions of decentralization; reducing costs for organizing logistics activities due to the reduction of the transport component in the cost of services; increasing the volume of cargo transportation of agricultural products and freight traffic of various types of transport; creating new jobs and growth of employment in the agricultural sector; improving the environmental condition of rural areas and increasing the level of their environmental safety.