Artem Novikov, Head of the Smart Farming Department

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In a speech at the IV Federal IT Forum of the Russian Agro-Industrial ComplexSmart AgroDeputy Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Bashkortostan Lyalya Davletbaeva called digitalization the main tool for increasing production efficiency. According to her estimates, this applies not only to large vertically integrated holdings and companies engaged in the processing of agricultural products, where the demand for the use of digital technologies has long been there and certain results have been achieved, but also to medium-sized agricultural firms and even farms. Especially where other reserves south korea cell phone number list for increasing productivity have already been exhausted. And according to estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture of Bashkortostan, the share of such farms in the republic is approaching 80%. The task is to make them aware of the need to use digital technologies and encourage them to implement them.
at EkoNivaTekhnika Holding, noted that 80% of fields have heterogeneity zones and, therefore, require differentiated application of fertilizers, plant protection products, and seeding. Moreover, the use of such technologies gives a quick effect due to the saving of seriously expensive resources without reducing the yield.

Head of the Innovation Technologies Project at Rostselmash LLC Oleg Aleksandrov called the reduction in the number of workers a serious challenge, along with the growth in prices for fertilizers, chemicals and seeds. One of the answers to this challenge is the growing interest in highly automated agricultural machinery. At the same time, it pays for itself very quickly due to the reduction in downtime and grain theft.

Olga Chagina, Head of the Research and Development Department of the Center for Development of Financial Technologies of JSC Rosselkhozbank (RSHB), noted that the needs for digital products of large, medium and small farms are radically different. Farmers need boxed products that require minimal effort to implement. At the same time, developers do not hear small producers well.

RSHB has developed a digital platform called "Your Own Farming". It contains about 700 digital products, for the creation of which the bank also attracts startups. These products solve various problems, from product sales to soil analysis or field monitoring from satellites. An important task is to inform the target audience, for which RSHB is conducting a whole range of activities.

Denis Skripka, Head of Development and Sales at Digital Agro LLC, said that digitalization is useful for all agricultural producers. But at the same time, it is impossible to be equally good for everyone. The key issue for small farms is the payback of solutions, while for large ones, such problems as the fact that the systems do not have all the necessary functions are significant. Also, many pressing issues have not yet been resolved, for example, a ration calculator for farm animals, although this has been done for more than 100 years.