Agricultural holdings: current state and prospects for digital transformation

Abstract

An integrated approach is applied in the paper to consider the essence of regional agricultural holdings, characterize their types and possible options of organizational structure. The main advantages of agricultural holdings amongst other forms of management used in national agricultural sector are systematized, the problem field of their current operation is identified. The major strategic directions for improving business processes of agricultural holdings as vertically integrated structures in conditions of innovative economy and its digital component are defined. One of the main areas of the ongoing systemic transformations is the creation of vertically integrated forms of management (agricultural holdings), which by their nature react flexibly to changes in the agricultural market, have great socio-economic importance and demonstrate high performance.