The purpose of the work was to analyze the foreign experience of management in the fi eld of agricultural development: history, current state, the influence of digitalization. A number of highly promising modern trends in the development of agriculture in the world has been described in the article. In our days, the centralized management model in the development of rural areas and agribusiness still dominates in European countries, with all this the modern general approach of the policy of the EU and other European countries outside this union in regional development consists, first of all, in transferring as much management functions as possible to the regional level. This approach is also characteristic of the domestic model of agricultural development policy. The most important and eff ective tool (direction) of modernization of any of the known control systems in the modern world is their digitalization. Digitalization of management in the agricultural sector at all levels from the state to the subject of small agribusiness will not be an exception. Further digital transformation of management in domestic agriculture represents a higher level of digital integration, which affects the most complex organizational changes in government structures and agribusiness. The results of the implementation of these tasks would be able to dramatically affect the growth of profi ts in the agricultural business, the competitiveness of products and will allow the agricultural industry as a whole to reach the modern world technological frontiers.