Use of digitalization facilities by local government bodies in foreign agriculture

Issue № 1, 2019, article № 5, pages 35-43

Section: International relations and world agricultural experience

Language: Russian

Original language title: ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ СРЕДСТВ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ МЕСТНЫМИ ОРГАНАМИ САМОУПРАВЛЕНИЯ В ЗАРУБЕЖНОМ СЕЛЬСКОМ ХОЗЯЙСТВЕ

Keywords: DIGITAL ECONOMY, AGRARIAN SECTOR, LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES, FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF DIGITIZATION, MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS

Abstract: Since the approval of the government program «Digital Economy of Russian Federation», which runs until 2035, and the completion of the development in 2018 ofindustry sub-program «Digital agriculture», the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and the governments of all hierarchical levels have a lot of work to create new management systems, whose goal is to move from management «in the fire brigade mode» to management on the basis of planning and forecasting risks, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of land resources use [1]. However, the current level of digitalization of domestic agricultural economy is a serious concern because of the lack of up-sufficiency of the number of IT professionals, the lack of scientific and practical knowledge on innovative agricultural technologies and methodologies, the lack of global forecast on the prices of agricultural products on the world market , undeveloped logistics and other reasons. Only a small number of agricultural producers have the necessary financial resources to purchase new equipment, use IT technologies and platforms. According to Rosstat in 2017, investments in IT technology in our country amounted to 0,85 billion rubles or 0.2‰ of the investment in all sectors of Russia [14]. The relevance of the study of foreign experience is used on local authorities at the municipal level and in the farms due to the possibility of adapting some of its elements to the Russian conditions that will facilitate express implementation of state and branch programs on the digital economy. The aim is to analyze the state of local self-management of US agriculture, China, France, Germany and other countries and their approaches in the implementation and use of funds Digital economy in agricultural production. When presenting the results of the study, the following method was used: the economic and statistical analysis of the aggregate of the indicator of the availability and digitization of the management activities of self-governing bodies abroad.

Authors: Bykov Vasilii Gennadevich, Semkin Aleksandr Grigorevich