The article discusses the development of intensive horticulture, the functioning of the existing forms of management in the sub-sector and enterprises of the fruit processing industry of the Republic of Dagestan at the present stage. Regional statistical materials for the period 2015–2021 were used as initial data. The purpose of the article is to reveal the possibilities of restoration and effective functioning of the fruit subcomplex through organizational transformations in the region. The relevance of this research lies in the development of a modern model of the functioning of agricultural and fruit processing enterprises. It is shown that the solution of this problem affects a wide range of urgent tasks of economic agrarian science, including issues of technical and technological renewal, innovative development, cooperation and agro-industrial integration, state support. The results of the study show that the structure of fruit and berry production in the region has not changed, personal subsidiary farms of the population still occupy the leading position (88%). During the above–mentioned analyzed period, there is a tendency to increase the share of agricultural enterprises from 4.4 to 8% and peasant (farm) farms – from 1.1 to 4%. The sociological survey showed a positive attitude of agricultural producers to the process of cooperation in the republic, but at the same time their unwillingness to unite in any direction was revealed. The article proposes an economic and organizational approach to the creation of a corporation in the region, which includes agricultural producers, a fruit processing complex, trade, commodity infrastructure, agricultural service, financial, scientific units. The implementation of the proposed model of the corporation, it seems, will increase the competitiveness of all participants, and will also contribute to solving key socio-economic problems of rural areas of the republic. The materials of this study will be useful for drawing up programs for the development of the agro-industrial complex of the region.