Role of Information Technologies in the Agro Industrial Complex Development

Abstract

The development of digitalization in all sectors of the economy is truly a key and significant development vector. Serious attention from the Russian state is also directed to the agricultural sector of the economy. In connection with such new trends of politics in Russia, the project “Digital Agriculture” was developed, the main directions of which should certainly give positive results. A similar hypothesis is built not on assumptions, but on the existing foreign experience of developed countries, which confirms the special socio-economic importance of digital technologies. Among the main areas where blockchain technologies are successfully practiced are: infrastructure, human capital, economic sectors and public services. In Russia, despite the fact that the official state course was taken only in 2017 by signing the relevant Presidential Decree, the history of the information technologies development began long before that, from the second half of the 20th century. Given the problematic, but national importance of the agricultural sector of the economy, the paper considers the main advantages of moving to a new level of innovative development and interaction between subjects of the agro-industrial complex by introducing a modern digital platform with the main tools of action within the framework of the state project on digitalization of agriculture.

 Keywords: digitalization, economics, agro-industrial sector, technologies, platform.