Digital transformation of the agriculture industry of the Russian Federation

Abstract

At present, in the state agricultural sector, as well as in other economic sectors, there are serious «digital» transformations. Identification of their trends, nature and degree of influence on agriculture, in general, is an important urgent task.The purpose of the article is to assess the factors that affect this process and propose measures that contribute to solving the problems of digitalization of the domestic agro-industrial sector by assessing the current level of digitalization of domestic agriculture and its industrial features. At the same time, modern methods of scientific knowledge have been used, such as analysis, synthesis, induction, abstraction.The article considers the trends in creation and implementation of innovations in the agricultural sector, as well as the demand for new technologies by economic entities of the agricultural sector.Evaluation of the current level of digitalization of domestic agriculture has made it possible to identify factors that affect this process. In the end, measures are proposed the implementation of which will contribute to solving the problems of digitalization of agriculture as the most important industry in the country: development of an industry-wide platform (project) for digitalization of the agro-industrial complex and improvement of the regulatory framework for the development of digital technologies; development of information infrastructure in rural areas and provision of special subsidies for connecting to this infrastructure to small and medium agricultural organizations, as well as farmers; development of national and regional services for industry management, market forecasting and rural development.

Keywords

• digital transformation
• agriculture
• it-technologies
• agribusiness
• industry-wide platform
• new technologies
• agribusiness
• skilled personnel