Development of Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Machinery Market in the Interests of Ensuring Agricultural Sustainability

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the problem of systemic development of the agro-industrial complex. It shows that the provision of food security in the long-term and the full-scale implementation of SDG2 (achievement of agriculture’s sustainability) in the period until 2030 need the transition to the agro-industrial complex 4.0. It is treated as the fourth technological mode, which envisages the active use of leading technologies. The main ideas of this chapter consist in demonstrating the central role of the agricultural machinery market in the transition to the agro-industrial complex 4.0. The authors determine the target characteristics of agricultural machinery that are necessary for its competitiveness and the transition of agricultural companies to agro-industrial complex 4.0. These characteristics include robotization of agricultural machinery and equipping agricultural machinery with the technologies of the Internet of things, which allow using big data and AI in the management, monitoring and forecasting of agricultural productions. A case study of the modern experience of the development of the agricultural machinery market in Russia is performed, based on which the preconditions and perspectives of import substitution in the agricultural machinery market during the transition to agro-industrial complex 4.0 are determined. The authors systematize the current problems of the development of entrepreneurship in the agricultural machinery market and develop the applied recommendations to solve these problems in the interests of provision of agriculture’s sustainability and food security in the conditions of the transition to agro-industrial complex 4.0.KeywordsDevelopment of entrepreneurshipAgricultural machinery marketSustainability of agricultureFood securityAgro-industrial complex 4.0JEL ClassificationA10O13Q01L64