Digitalization of Infrastructural Provision for Agricultural Production

The subject of the study is the organizational and economic relations that arise in the process of digitalization of infrastructural provision for agricultural production. The aim of the work is the formation of theoretical and methodological provisions for the development of digitalization of infrastructural provision for agricultural production. The article shows the importance of digitalization of infrastructural provision of agricultural production, which can significantly increase the efficiency, quality and productivity of production processes in comparison with traditional forms of management. The general and particular problems concerning the digitalization of both the agro-industrial complex on the whole and the infrastructure objects of agro-industrial production are identified in the article. The importance and the practicability of the digital transformation of agricultural production have been substantiated as the result of the study. The theoretical provisions that reveal the essence and the content of the infrastructural provision for the agro-industrial complex are formulated in the article. The methodical approach to the analysis of the digitalization status of the infrastructural provision of agro-industrial production is substantiated, including the stages of the conduct and the main indicators. The conditions and the factors affecting the digitalization in the agricultural sector both positive and negative are identified. The priority guidelines for the digital transformation of the agricultural production infrastructure have been developed based on the identified problems. The article proposes to consider the infrastructure of agricultural production as a system of elements, institutions and mechanisms that contribute to the production, conservation, physical movement of agricultural products. Digitalization is viewed as the transformation of production and management models based on innovative digital technologies. The application of the proposed methodological approach to assessing the digitalization of infrastructural facilities allows analyzing the degree of use of digital technologies in agricultural enterprises and justifying the need for the introduction of new digital technologies in infrastructural facilities. The practical relevance of the digitalization of infrastructural provision for agroindustrial production is the contribution to the growth of production volumes, the reduction of transaction costs, the increase of physical and economic affordability of food, the promotion of import substitution and the development of interregional exchange and export.