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At the present stage of the development of the world economy, those agricultural companies that fully apply modern technologies have significant advantages. At the same time, today there are active processes of digitalization of all sectors of the domestic economy, specialized departments are being created, targeted programs are being developed and implemented, including in agriculture. Digitization of agribusiness is the result of the inclusion of digital technologies (including the use of local subsystems for managing technological operations) in various elements of the activities of an agricultural organization (production, processing, sale, supply and service) to create consumer value of products, starting from planning, organizing and implementing the production cycle , and ending with the satisfaction of consumer demand. At the same time, for the effective implementation of the digitalization process, it is necessary to recruit the staff of enterprises with the appropriate number of specialists. The theoretical foundations of training and employment of specialists in the field of information technology (IT), as well as methods of managing IT personnel in agriculture. The modern level of digitalization in Russia and other countries of the world is analyzed and compared. The level of employment of IT specialists in the context of various sectors of the country’s economy is considered. The analysis of the dynamics of the state of training information technology specialists in Russian universities, including indicators of admission, graduation, competition and the share of IT specialists in the total number. The situation with the training of students in leading universities is considered in detail. Regularities have been identified that reflect the annual volatility of the number of applicants with a general trend of moderate growth, a forecast has been made for maintaining the corresponding parameters of admission and release of students, the attractiveness of vacancies in the agricultural sector has been determined on the basis of a retrospective analysis of indicators characterizing the formation of human resources in the information technology sphere. A set of measures is proposed to increase the provision of the agricultural sector with highly qualified IT specialists.
Сердобинцев et al. (Fri,) studied this question.