The article presents the analysis of factors and ways in the development of meat-producing subcomplex in the Republic of Mari El. Price disparity in the Republic leads to the redistribution of the part of values being produced by meat manufacturers for the benefit of processing industry and traders by purchasing meat at a lower price. However, the exchange between the related sectors should be equivalent, i.e. provide a normal level of return on the equivalent capital. The most reasonable form of economic relations in products processing and trade would be a producing and trading meat corporation, where its participants were interested to a greater extent in the maintenance and effective use of material resources as they would be both employers and employees taking part in the production directly. One of the main conditions of the intensive development of meat-producing subcomplex in the Republic of Mari El is the increase in the consumption of meat in the Republic which means the transfer of the product to consumer affluence. It will require a considerable increase in productive capacities of meat-processing enterprises which in its turn can motivate the creation and development of regional meat cluster.