Digitalization: problems of its development in modern agricultural production

Abstract

The analysis shows that the degree of implementation of digital technologies differs in different countries, with Russia significantly lagging behind the leading countries. The purpose of the research is to analyze the current state of digitalization of agriculture, identify problems of its development in the process of digital transformation of the agricultural economy and ways to solve them. The factors that hinder the digitalization of agriculture are highlighted. These are limiting grain production and difficult to predict, psychological barriers and insufficient training (including IT specialists), the availability of investment, the multidimensional component of production, and the availability of digital infrastructure. The solutions of selected problems are proposed: installation of local weather stations; training of IT specialists in the agriculture and learning agricultural workers the skills to work with modern technology; creating a single portal for farmers, with the possibility of exchanging information; improving the information infrastructure; creating strategies to implementing digital technologies.