Digitalization in agriculture: experience and prospects

Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University", 58 Belinsky str, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 677000, Russia

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Abstract

Agriculture is a specific industry that is particularly in need of digitalization. This is due to the fact that this industry is exposed to multiple factors, having a number of features, namely: the production process and its results depend on numerous factors, among them not only natural-climatic, biological, soil, but also socio-economic, etc. Moreover, there is a fairly significant variation of these factors in space - time coordinates, which leads to significant management costs; business entities, as a rule, are very dispersed, which, of course, also makes it difficult to develop uniform, equally effective management decisions; within the agro-industrial complex and its spheres, one can observe complex and strong in intensity connections that arise between industries. This is due to the fact that suppliers, buyers, and other counterparties are quite numerous and diverse. All this determines the high relevance of the issues that will be considered in this article. Thus, the following main issues are considered in the article: the essence of digitalization in the agricultural industry; the main problems of digitalization in this industry; experience and prospects.