Аннотация
The development of small business, agriculture is one of the key areas of economic development of the republic and has great potential and signifi cant reserves. However, this area of economic activity has a number of specifi c features, consisting not only in the seasonality of agricultural production as the basis for the formation of cluster formations and in the presence of a large number of unforeseen risks associated with natural and climatic unpredictable changes, and, according to the authors, agricultural businessmen are not suffi ciently motivated for production activities.