Role of clusters in development of the digital ecosystem of the agro-industrial complex

The main trends in agriculture over the past few years have been export orientation and digitalization. Since 2019, departmental project “Digital Agriculture” has implemented. In 2021, a draft order of government Russian Federation “On Strategic Direction Field Digital Transformation Agro-Industrial Fishery Complex until 2030” was developed, which provides for development national online platform promoting agricultural products launch modeling forecasting system agro-industrial complex. Currently, beneficiaries digitalization are large holdings IT industry (manufacturers sensors software developers machinery equipment, companies, fertilizer producers telecom operators). small medium-sized farms that do not sufficient resources end-to-end production business processes to be able join innovation race, it is necessary look format interaction competition cooperation organically combined. article discusses one such forms association – clusters; explores their potential role network architectures; similarities differences cluster digital industrial systems analyzed. It concluded flexibility openness structures allows actors find functional areas niches fit into created ecosystem