Regional aspect of digitalization of the agricultural sector in modern conditions

Abstract

Digitalization of agriculture is necessary to improve the efficiency and sustainability of its functioning through radical changes in the quality of management of both technological processes and decision-making processes at all levels of the hierarchy, based on modern ways of production and further use of information on the state and forecasting of possible changes in managed elements and subsystems, as well as economic conditions in agriculture. The world practice and experience of successful domestic agricultural producers show that the application of modern digital technologies allows to form optimal soil-agro-technical and organizational-territorial conditions, ensuring during the whole life cycle of agricultural products a significant increase in yield and productivity, reduction of material costs for fuel and lubricants, electricity, plant protection products, labor and other types of expenses, conservation of soil fertility and environmental protection. However domestic producers of agricultural products and foodstuffs lag behind agricultural producers of countries with developed agroindustrial complex in such significant indicators as labor productivity, crop yields etc. due to the long absence of conditions for investments and the low level of provision with modern information technologies existing at the moment. This article examines the current state and directions of development of the digitalization of the agricultural sector of Kursk region. The problems of digitalization of the agroindustrial complex are identified, and the key directions of digitalization of agriculture are described.