According to him, today in the Russian agricultural sector employs less than half of IT professionals than in countries with traditionally highly developed agricultural sector. "Domestic agriculture today needs about 90 thousand IT specialists. To solve this problem in the largest agrarian universities since last year, open the Department of digitalization of agriculture, which will prepare the staff for this area," said Kozubenko.

Digitalization will improve the profitability of agricultural production due to point cost optimisation and a more efficient allocation of funds. "Implementation of the digital economy can reduce costs by at least 23 percent. The rejection of new technology, conversely, can result in the loss of up to 40 percent of the crop," added the official.

According to data of the Ministry of agriculture, the level of development of technologies in agriculture Russia occupies 15-e a place in the world. In the field of agricultural technologies in Russia there are 180 companies. And the market of information and computer technology in the industry is now estimated at 360 billion rubles.

Now most of the technology used in processing, and the crop they are almost integrated. Only 10 percent of arable land is processed using methods of precision farming.

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Source: http://vestnik-glonass.ru/