EXPLANATORY NOTEto the proposal to implement the new branch of the Digital Economy of the

Russian Federation programName of the branch Digital Agriculture

The sector being transformed / field of activity

Digital transformation of the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation

Organizations initiating the application

Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State Agrarian University named after K.A. Timiryazev, Public Council of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, Sberbank PJSC, Moscow Stock Exchange PJSC, Skolkovo Foundation, Rostek Group, Mobile TeleSystems PJSC, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Higher School of Economics, the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Administration of the Tambov Region, the Government of the Kaliningrad Region, Ministry of Agriculture of the Moscow Region, Ministry of Agriculture of the Stavropol Territory, Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, Agro-Industrial Complex and Environmental Reproduction Department of the Belgorod Region , FGBOUVO Kuban State Agrarian University named after IT Trubilin, Belgorod State Agrarian University named after V.Y. Gorina, Rusagro Group OJSC, AFG National LLC, UK EFKO JSC, Agrofirma Trio LLC, Holding Company AK BARS JSC, AGRICO LLC, Agrosila JSC, BIO TON LLC, AgroGard, AgroPromkomplektatsiya, Russkaya Zemlya LLC, UK Rusmolko LLC, Rostselmash, ANT LLC, Agroplasma LLC, Oskar, Association of Internet Market Participants , Soyuzrossakhar, Russian Grain Union, National Union of Fruit and Vegetable Producers, National Union of Producers and Consumers of Organic Products, Oil and Fat Union of Russia, National Association of corn and sunflower seed producers, Internet Initiatives Development Fund, Infobis LLC, National Movement for Saving Agriculture, and etc.

Responsible person (FULL NAME)

Lebedev Ivan Vyacheslavovich, - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

Contacts of the responsible person

pr.lebedeva@mcx.ru

The supervising Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

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federal executive body

Contacts +7 (495) 608-60-00, dit@mcx.ru, 107139, Orlikov side street 1/11, Moscow, Russia

1. Information on the sector being transformed / field of activity which the new branch covers

Target indicators:Employed in the sector: 4 million people.The sector’s contribution to GDP is 3.69 trillion rubles or 4.01 percent.Export earnings: 20.7 billion US dollars.Large agricultural holdings and medium-sized enterprises - 36.5 thousand.Small companies - 136.7 thousand.Contribution to GDP in “agriculture, hunting and forestry” line in 2015 was

4.2 percent (in accordance with the data of the Federal State Statistics Service) with a volume of 3.67 trillion. rubles, 2016 - 3.87 trillion. rub. and 2017 - 3.69 trillion. rub.). According to the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2016, Russia harvested 119.1 million tons of grain, in 2017 a record 135.4 million tons of grain. Russia ranks first in export of wheat - 36.4 million tons (data for March 2018).

In terms of arable land, Russia occupies the third place in the world (116 million hectares, the first place belongs to the United States, the second to India).

Possessing the potential to transfer agricultural land, Russia is increasing grain yields, showing the highest growth since 2000: yields increased by almost 60 percent. At the same time, according to a number of indicators, Russia lags behind the leading economies, the yield of cereals is lower than the yields in the USA and Germany 3-4 times, the cost of agricultural products per employee is 22 times lower than in the USA.

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Data on GDP and employment in agriculture in 2015

Gross value of agricultural products, billion US dollars

Share of agricultural products in the country’s GDP,%

The gross value of agricultural products per employee, in thousands of US dollars.

The size of the population employed in the agricultural sector (forestry and fisheries)

Number of employees,

million people

% of total employment

thousands of people

United States 197 1,1 180 0,7 1 010 157

Germany 20 0,6 28 1,6 720 45

Russia 61 4,6 8 9,4 7 198 77

China 977 8,9 3 33,6 337 344 1 004

India 355 17,0 1 49,0 245 882 502

Source: CIA

Thanks to the mechanisms of state support for the agro-industrial complex, within the available funding, the amount of funds for purchasing agricultural machinery at preferential prices (up to 5.2 billion rubles) has been increased almost threefold, the primary sector is being re-equipped, but the weak export potential leads to a decrease in investment in fixed assets, the savings on purchased and supplied equipment leads to the fact that it does not meet the requirements for connecting to telemetry platforms and controlling the Internet of things.

At the same time, Russia should be ready for the entering of domestic agricultural producers to the world market, especially with products of high added value. The absence of processes compatible with high requirements for production adopted in the markets of other countries can lead to crisis phenomena in domestic branches with high potential and rapid growth dynamics: swine-breeding, poultry farming, sugar production, fat and oil industry, as the domestic market becomes saturated. The development of agriculture in Russia in recent years in the context of the embargo on imports of a number of products has already identified some sectoral problems that need to be resolved 1.

1 Ministry of Agriculture and the Higher School of Economics, Forecast of scientific and technological development of the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030.

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Agriculture in Russia is an integral part of the agro-industrial complex, Digitalization of Agriculture program should provide participants with the opportunity to use broadband, mobile, LPWAN communication, information technologies (small and big data, artificial intelligence, control platforms) of domestic instrumentation (labels, controllers, sensors, controls).

The opportunities for modernizing of the sector are enormous, the country’s food security and development of export potential turn agriculture into a high-tech branch that can not only provide food for Russia, but also for many countries of the world, and create opportunities for the introduction of new innovative developments that did not exist before, encourage management decision making that can provide the population with quality and safe products.

According to expert estimates, during a season a farmer has to make more than 40 different decisions at limited intervals. Many of these decisions are objects of digitalization.

The current level of digitalization of domestic agriculture raises serious concerns: the lack of scientific and practical knowledge on innovative modern agricultural technologies and methodology, the lack of a global forecast for agricultural prices, and the underdevelopment of the logistics, storage and delivery system lead to high production costs. A small number of agricultural producers have the financial capacity to purchase new equipment, use IT equipment and platforms.

The amount of ICT expenditure in Agriculture, hunting and forestry section, amounted to 4 billion rubles according to the Federal State Statistics Service in 2015, which is 0.34 percent of all ICT investments in all sectors of the economy, in 2017, 0.85 billion rubles. or 0.2 percent. This is the lowest indicator for the sectors, which indicates a low digitization of the domestic agricultural economy, but this figure emphasizes that the branch has the greatest potential for investment in ICT technologies.The transformation of the Russian Federation's agriculture includes the digitization of the following production lines:

- Crop production, primary processing, accelerated selective breeding and genetics;

- Vegetables of open and closed ground, greenhouse branch;

- Fruit and berries, processing and storage technologies;

- Aquaculture, fish farming, processing technologies;

- Poultry and livestock, nutrition, accelerated selective breeding and genetics.

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The program also directly affects:- State support of manufacturers;- Financial and insurance sectors;- Agricultural production means;- Storage and processing infrastructure, logistics and supply chains;- Supervision and control processes;- Educational processes and training programs.

and it can be started implemented within the framework of the State Program for the Development of Agriculture and Regulation of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials and Foodstuffs for 2013-2020.

2. A team proposing the new trendKozubenko Igor Sergeevich, Director of the Department for Development and Management of State Information Resources of the agro-industrial complex of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia. The author of architecture and the developer of a unified system of information support for agricultural production in Russia. The operational head of the Digital Agriculture project.Sergeyev Alexander Mikhailovich, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Zolina Galina Dmitrievna, Rector of the Russian State Agrarian University named after K.A. TimiryazevUvarkina Evgenia Yurevna, CEO of Agrofirma TRIO LLC. She has many years of experience in agriculture and experience in reorganizing problem farms into stable agricultural enterprises with high economic indicators. Chairman of the profile commission for the AIC in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Serves as an expert of the team for assessing the effectiveness of the introduction of digital technologies, oversees issues of the regulatory framework.Panfilov Aleksey Petrovich, Project Director, Customer Service Department for Large and Medium Business Sberbank PJSC.Case: Realizes innovative projects for the CSB segment using Blockchain, Smart contract, Internet of Things, RPA, Robotics, Augmented reality technologies. Manages the creation of industry-specific business platforms of the Sberbank ecosystem. He implemented State Defense Order projects, Forest Industry GIS.Alifanov Kirill Alexandrovich, IT Director of Rusagro Group OJSC.

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Kiselev Sergey Viktorovich, Deputy Director of the Department of the Commodity Market, Moscow Stock Exchange.Lipikina Alexandra Dmitrievna, Project Manager, Customer Service Department for Large and Medium-Sized Business, Sberbank PJSC.Case: has experience in structuring and managing large investment projects. Provides implementation of the program of preferential crediting of agricultural producers. Participates in the creation of an industry-specific business platform for the agro-industrial complex of the Sberbank ecosystem.Kulikov Roman Sergeevich, Skolkovo Foundation, Director for Acceleration of Projects in the Field of Agro-Industrial Biotechnologies of the Fund.Chulok Alexander Alexandrovich, Deputy Director of Foresight Center, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, Higher School of Economics.Belov Yury Lvovich, CEO of AFG National LLC.Nikitin Alexander Valeryevich, Governor of the Tambov region, Ph. D. in Economics, expert in the field of financial risk management in agriculture. Provides coordination and practical implementation of digital platforms, the Internet of Things and information systems in the life cycle of agricultural production in the pilot districts of the Tambov region.Case: He is one of the developers of the Agrarian Technology Park Green Valley project, which assumes the existence of a closed research and production complex that unites science, business, education and production.Sitnikov Vladimir Nikolaevich, Minister of Agriculture of the Stavropol Territory.Case: Development and implementation of electronic maps of the region of the Stavropol Territory with digitization of agricultural producers’ lands, introduction of data on crop rotations, mineral fertilizers and results of economic activity.Koryakov Daniil Pavlovich. Deputy Head of the Department of the agro-industrial complex and Reproduction of the Environment of the Belgorod Region.Zemskov Oleg Vladimirovich, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan.Case: Situation center of the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Tatarstan, certification of fields, monitoring of energy-saturated equipment, chipping cattle, a system of complete reporting (already functioning), certification of water reservoirs, land reclamation systems, monitoring of personnel movement, reporting and analysis module, meteorological situation, space images, NDVI.

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Kolesnikov Andrey Vyacheslavovich, Director of the Association of Internet of Things Market Participants. 30 years of experience in the field of Internet, IT and communications. Member of the expert council under the Government in the field of ICT, leading international expert in the field of unique identifiers and addressing systems.Case: The Russian domain registrar was taken to the 7th place in the world. He led the launch of the national domain .РФ in Cyrillic, which is still ranked first among non-Latin top-level domains.Usanov Denis Alexandrovich, CEO of ANT LLC, leading specialist in the field of digital technologies in agriculture. He is engaged in the implementation of processes and digitalization in the two largest holdings in the field of crop production. Expert team, provides collection, processing and presentation of effective processes and technologies for application in the program. The developer of information systems on the basis of a unique cloud platform, the introduction of systems providing cloud computing services to corporate clients on the SaaS model in the field of agriculture in Russia.Case: Unification of the production process. Operative planning, accounting and control of agricultural work. Monitoring of crops. Monitoring the use of technology. Control of the harvesting company. Precise agriculture.Gridnev Viktor Vyacheslavovich, Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (Office of Digital Initiatives Management of ECE).Alexandrov Oleg Yurievich, Project Manager, Integrated Systems for Monitoring, Monitoring and Analysis of Agricultural Machinery, SC Rostselmash.Case: Development of the Agrotronic system is an innovative system for remote monitoring and control of operations of agro-machines with a parametric control module for agricultural enterprises. Due to the fact that you can monitor the operation of the equipment remotely in real time, specialists can monitor the quality of technological operations. The results of the field work are monitored immediately, which allows us to make operational management decisions.Skryatnikova Inna Rustamovna, Head of Special Projects of the Foundation for Internet Initiatives Development. Many years of experience in municipal management and the introduction of digital technologies in municipal economies. Methodologist and curator of development programs (road maps) in the field of introducing the Internet of things in the agroindustrial complex and identification of animals.

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Case: supervised the preparation of three road maps: the development of internet technologies for things in industry (subsequently the road map “internet + city”), the roadmap "Internet technologies of things in the agro-industrial complex", the Identification of animals roadmap.Astafieva Evgenia Sergeevna, the head of a direction, Functional group of development M2M and IoT decisions, Department on development and management of products of a business market of MTS PJSC.During the last 6 years, she took an active part in the development of concepts and implementation of state initiatives, infrastructure projects, incl. complex projects in the field of transport on the basis of GLONASS, the infrastructure for the operation of unmanned vehicles in the territory of the Russian Federation, the development of telematics systems, as well as the project on the formation and organization of an export support system for non-commodity groups of goods and the state system of refundable subsidies, the development and provision of proposals for the management system for the implementation of The digital economy of the Russian Federation program is already part of MTS PJSC.Case: Successful cases of introducing objective control, digitalization and management of processes in livestock, poultry, horticulture, vegetable growing, taking into account the specifics of the agricultural sector, the diversity of crops, and the priorities of agricultural tasks, most projects are of an individual nature (each project is being developed “on a turn-key basis”).Korshunov Vladimir Gennadievich, CEO of Infobis LLC, the regions of presence include Krasnodar, Rostov, Stavropol, Saratov, Volgograd, Samara, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Barnaul, Ulan-Ude and others. The author and developer of the Agrosignal program for online control over the progress of agricultural work, which allows to increase profitability in crop production by 20%. Many years of experience in introducing digital technologies in agriculture. In the team he presents expert data on the technological chains of production in plant growing.Case: Agrotopvodstroy JSC, in the Republic of Buryatia, with Mukhorshibir, it was possible to reduce the employed workers in the sowing and harvesting and accelerate the fulfillment of the plans. The work of equipment on the field increased from 1.5 hours to 5-6 hours per day. The cost of fuel fell from 4.5 million to 2 million rubles. for the same period. Only at the expense of fuel control the program paid for itself for a month of work, not counting the reduction in costs for seeding.Trofimov Roman Igorevich, Head of venture capital of AgTech Ventures, AVG Capital Partners. He has many years of experience in agribusiness, the

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launch of new and restructuring of existing enterprises. Currently, he specializes in scientific and digital modernization of agribusiness, infrastructure, increasing the efficiency of agricultural production. Serves as an expert of the team on modern trends in the development and implementation of digital technologies in the agro-industrial complex.Case: Agroholding GILAN Agriculture Group. Visual inventory of fields and agricultural machinery. Remote monitoring of the operation of agricultural machinery, territorial restrictions and transportation of crops. Remote video monitoring of construction works and operating activities of livestock farms, gardens, factories. Introduction of remote control over vegetation of cotton, cereals and fruit crops using Internet of Things elements (soil sensors and weather stations). Growth of yield on cereals by 15%, growth of yield of cotton fiber up to 36%.Vodyanova Svetlana Aleksandrovna, CEO of J’son & Partners. Many years of experience in research in ICT. The team provides a methodology for the use of digital technologies and analysis of foreign experience of introducing ICT in agriculture.Case: The author of Current status and forecasts of the development of Internet of Things technologies in agriculture: world experience and conclusions for the Russian Federation. Technological and economic barriers of digitalization in Russian agriculture study.Orlova Lyudmila Vladimirovna, Candidate of Economic Sciences, President of the National Movement of National Economy of Savings, Chief Editor of Resource-Saving Agriculture magazine. Organizer of the first large-scale projects on integrated introduction of modern resource-saving technologies for the production of potatoes and cereals in Russia. The creator of the first enterprises for the production of modern machines for these technologies - Eurotechnica JSC and the introduction of technologies for precision agriculture - Eurotechnika MPS in Russia.Case: The experience of introducing resource-saving technologies in the main grain-producing regions of Russia. The founder and implementer of concepts on the organization of scientific and educational centers on the basis of the leading agrarian universities of the country and innovative farms in the regions. Organizer of a number of international scientific and practical conferences on resource-saving technologies and technologies for precision farming.Benko Nikolai Ivanovich, CEO of Agroplasma LLC, full-cycle selective breeding and seed company. The leader of the production of seeds of hybrid sunflower and sorghum in the Russian Federation. Head of the Oilseeds Section

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of the National Association of Corn and Sunflower Seed Producers. Provides coordination of enterprises in the field of seed business.Case: Accelerated artificial selection and seed production of corn using genomic and cell technologies project developer within the framework of the Skolkovo innovation fund and “Development of technology for accelerated artificial selection of oil crops based on high-performance methods of genotyping and molecular phenotyping to achieve food security in Russia” program in partnership with Skoltekh.Kosogor Sergey Nikolaevich, Deputy Director of Analytical Center of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia.Ozhgikhin Ivan Vladimirovich, Rostec State Corporation Deputy General Director for Development.Dobrynin Andrei Petrovich, Deputy Director of the National Center for Digital Economy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Moscow State University).Korolev Sergey Valerievich, Chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, President of the National Union of Fruit and Vegetable Producers.Bodin Andrey Borisovich, Chairman of the Board of Soyuzsahar of RussiaZlochevsky Arkady Leonidovich, President of the Russian Grain Union.Skurikhin Pavel Valerievich, President of the National Union of Grain Producers.Bizhdov Korney Datkovich, President of the Unified Association of Insurers.Mironenko Oleg Viktorovich, National Union of Producers and Consumers of Organic Produce.Maltsev Mikhail Stanislavovich, chairman of Fat-and-Oil Union of Russia.Lobach Igor Alexandrovich, President of SRO National Association of Producers of Corn and Sunflower Seeds.Vorontsova Elena Aleksandrovna, the head of the direction of the farmer products of the Azbuka Vkusa retailer.Yusupov Rafael Midhatovich, Director of St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Shenderyuk-Zhidkov Alexander Vladimirovich, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kaliningrad Region.Leonov Vyacheslav Igorevich, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Moscow Region.Zolin Marat Ivanovich, Deputy CEO of AGROSILA JSC.Zagorulko Nina Maksimovna, Business Development Director, Anton A. Olenchenko, IT Department Director, Russkaya Zemlya LLC.

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Gerasenkov Denis Vasilyevich, Director for IT of BIO TON LLC.Gazizov Alexey Marsovich, IT Director, AgroPromkomplektatsiya Group of Companies.Kireev Daniil Vladimirovich, Head of the Information Technology Service of AgroGard JSC.Romantsev Vladislav Anatolyevich, Director for Strategic Development, UK EFKO JSC.Frolov Stanislav Gennadievich, Deputy CEO of UK Rusmolko LLC.Savelyev Sergey Ivanovich, Director of Information Technologies Department of AK BARS JSC Holding Company.Tula Lolita Eduardovna, Deputy Director for General IssuesMarat Timurovich Abusakhitov AGRICO LLC.Zastrozhnikova Tatyana Nikolaevna, Head of Oscar Farm (peasant farm).Trubilin Alexander Ivanovich, Rector of Kuban State Agrarian University named after I. T. Trubilin.Case: Establishment of the Center for forecasting and monitoring of scientific and technological development of agro-industrial complex: technologies of precision agriculture, including automation and robotization.Samodelkin Alexander Gennadievich, Rector of Nizhny Novgorod State Agricultural Academy, Ph.D. in Biology, Professor, Honored Veterinary Officer of the Russian Federation, Honored employee of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Rector of the Nizhny Novgorod State Agricultural Academy, Co-Chairman of the Expert Council for the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in the Volga Federal District.Case: He organized a regional center for the introduction of new foreign and Russian technologies, the only in the Volga region a unique breeding plant for breeding beef cattle, an elite-seed farm. Co-chairman of the Expert Council for the Development of the Agro-industrial Complex in the Volga Federal District. From 2007 to 2012, Alexander Gennadievich held the position of Deputy Governor of the International Innovation Agency of the Volga Federal District on the issues of innovation and investment policy for the development of the agro-industrial complex of the district.Dorofeev Andrey Fedorovich, Vice-Rector for Innovation and Project Activities of the Belgorod State Agrarian University named after V.Y. Gorina.Case: he developed programs for the use of unmanned aerial systems, high-precision digital maps of fields, experimental plots and experimental scientific plots were developed, taking into account their 3D models, based on remote sensing data of spatial resolution of 3 cm. With the help of unmanned aerial vehicles and regularly monitored crops and an index of NDVI, which allows to

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make mineral fertilizers during fertilization differentially. Quadrocopters were used to introduce biological plant protection products (Trichogramma, Biorperaty), which will later enable organic farming.

1. Goals and objectives of digital transformation of the sector / field of activity

The objectives of digital transformation of agriculture are:- Growth of the contribution to the economy in 2024 - up to 5.9 trillion. rub.- Growth of export proceeds in the perspective of the year of 2025 to 45

billion dollars.- Creation, dispatching and aggregation of data streams to create end-to-end

chains from agricultural production to consumption with deep integration into related sectors of the digital economy as a tool for increasing labor productivity in agriculture and maximizing the profits of industry enterprises.

Increasing the efficiency of agricultural production, reducing the cost of production processes, the formation of new high-tech industries, involving new professionals in agricultural production, rural incomes and agricultural exports increasing are the declared goals of the Digital Agriculture program.

Russia has a significant reserve of increasing the efficiency of agricultural production (3-5 times) and the potential for growth in the sector’s turnover through the introduction of digital processes and technologies in crop production and livestock raising, increasing labour productivity and making full use of the capabilities of modern digital platforms for management at macro- and local levels production.

The key objectives of the program are:- Creation of technologies that simplify the process of crediting and

insurance of agricultural production, reduction of the terms for the provision of public services (subsidies, etc.), taking into account the availability of objective digital data on the subject, simplifying the workflow. The task is to stimulate the introduction of the figure and, consequently, the growth of turnover and labor productivity of economic entities;

- Implementation of digital tools for the use of information resources, platforms and technologies that increase the efficiency of production (precision agriculture, vegetation control, digital field, digital herd, etc.), which contribute to better control and supervision, ensuring management effectiveness (balance sheet analysis of production and consumption, export, market conditions at all levels, creating an effective sales chain from producer to consumer;

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- Use of financial and regulatory tools to smooth out seasonal downturns and information management tools for the availability of exchange commodities in storage warehouses (grain, oil, sugar, milk powder, etc.);

- Increase the effectiveness of interaction between participants and the state with the transition to digital format, the integration of information resources and convenient quick access to them of an unlimited authorized number of users (electronic transaction support, electronic warehouse receipts, acceptance certificates for processing, etc.);

- Development of a digital environment for distance agricultural education and the market of professional agricultural consulting;

- Increasing the attractiveness of work in agriculture, increasing demand for IT professionals, in the agricultural sector, raising income levels in rural areas;

- Ensuring the compatibility of processes and production standards with global ones for Russia’s access to the leading position as an exporter of agricultural products;

- Providing agricultural participants with access to the demand macro forecast platform, agricultural machinery management platforms, weather forecasts and objective vegetation control tools, planning and production management tools with Big Data and AI elements, close integration of digital agriculture processes with platforms developed in the process of digital economy implementation.The specific tasks of digital transformation of agriculture are:- Formation of a basic set of processes and methodology for digital agriculture, in order to use available resources efficiently and quickly for the introduction of economically sound best available technologies and practices that increase the profitability of agricultural production, enabling the production of agricultural products in an end-to-end digital environment “from a field to a counter”;- Launch of a platform for producers, which contributes to the formation of dynamic seasonal KPI crop management – “Effective hectare”, and livestock – “Effective head”, which makes it possible to use the resources available from the manufacturer effectively:capacity of the machine and tractor fleet, human resources, profit, profitability and cost indicators, production cost values by industry, sales forecasts, futures for purchase prices for products inside Russia and for export of products;- Development of functional requirements for domestic differential positioning equipment based on GLONASS / GNSS signals for digital and precision agriculture systems;- Implementation of platforms for objective monitoring and management of transport and logistics infrastructure in agriculture;

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- Creation of innovative farms as platforms for technologies training and education;- Implementation of Internet of Things platforms (cyber-physical systems) for managing agricultural machinery, greenhouses, tools, flows of used materials, improving energy efficiency of production, managing traceability systems, etc.;- Ensuring the international compatibility of the applied standards and protocols with the aim of gradually import substitution of foreign technologies dominating the agricultural production market.- Mandatory localization of telemetry control data;- Application of technologies for digital analysis of structure, texture and condition of soils, monitoring of crops for increasing crop yields and predictive analysis of crops, pests, etc.;- Elaboration of technical requirements and introduction of domestic instruments for differentiated application of fertilizers and chemicals for digital and precision agriculture systems based on digital soil maps showing the features of the property in each section of the field;- Creation of a matrix of digital solutions for the formation of crop rotations for different regions of the Russian Federation, taking into account the specifics of production (for example: lowland crop production, northern pasture reindeer herding, lake aquaculture, etc.), to produce quality environmentally friendly products based on best practices and using scientific potential;- Approbation, analysis and implementation of digital management technologies for saving agriculture (biologization of production), applied at all stages / technological operations of production (direct and band sowing, differentiated fertilization, Controlled Traffic Farming (CTF), efficient harvesting and post-harvest logistics, etc .);- Integration of analytical digital tools and regulatory solutions to combat the open-field system, monitoring the use of land resources through the analysis of big data;- Application of technologies for digital analysis of the structure, texture and condition of soils, monitoring of crops for increasing crop yields and predictive analysis of crops, pests, etc.;- Integration of information systems of Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) and veterinary services into a public-private digital platform to seamlessly integrate monitoring and supervision systems into business management systems of economic entities for the purpose of identification and traceability of animals and for inclusion in the end-to-end digital chains of the full production cycle of livestock products.

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- Digitalization of livestock and the use of digital herd technologies, the introduction of life cycle and traceability processes to ensure high quality, including for the export of livestock products (“green corridors”);- Work on standardization of formats and protocols for data exchange between information systems of production management to increase the competition of digital solution providers with priority to domestic software developers, while observing compatibility in global standards;

- Development of digital technologies of Russian selective breeding and genetics (including on blockchain-based technology), accelerated selective breeding and production of new varieties of plants and animal breeds adapted to specific soil and climatic conditions of regions, with high yield potential, weight gain and resistance to disease and damage by pests with the creation of breeding-seed centers in the regions;

- Assistance in the development and implementation of new educational programs and training standards for innovative technologies in digital agriculture (including direct seeding, precision agriculture technology, biotechnology, etc.) in the system of higher and secondary vocational education, and in training courses personnel for the agro-industrial complex, providing a set of measures for transferring knowledge and spreading the technologies of saving agriculture and biotechnology in agricultural production.

- Creation of an end-to-end platform for controlling agricultural production processes to ensure the operation of Russian social nutrition systems;

- Formation of data sets and procedures for the creation of information systems for bidding, procurement, management of exports and imports of agricultural products;

- Integration of information systems of market and government participants into a distributed and open “metasystem” that integrates knowledge bases on innovative technologies for the environmental and economic efficiency of agriculture across all working systems, including traceability systems, data on the seed and genetic fund, data from fertilizer suppliers and etc.

The implementation of the program will contribute to the development of the new agrarian technology policy of the Russian Federation and growth in related industries: ICT, the production of innovative agricultural machinery and also equipment for precision agriculture, biological products (Plant protection products, stimulants and fertilizers), optimization of the use of mineral fertilizers and chemical plant protection products, reduction of environmental impact, the development of selective breeding and seed centers, the introduction of new educational standards to curricula in agricultural universities and colleges, as well as in courses of improvement of professional skills, professional service of

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agrarian consultants, optimization of processes of life cycle of agricultural branch due to digitalization of processes.

Digitalization in agriculture provides an opportunity to create complex automated production and logistics chains that cover retail chains, wholesale trading companies, logistics, agricultural producers and their suppliers into a single process with adaptive management. In turn, the digitalization of commodity flows and production makes it possible to accumulate trading lots for the export of agricultural products systematically.

The program creates conditions for attracting private financing of currently being created platforms and applications for agricultural producers, as well as for actively attracting services for agricultural consulting.

Detailed information on data flows, elements of the platforms being created and applications is available in the materials of the strategic session of participants in the digital and agricultural markets (Digital Economy Autonomous Non-Profit Organization, April 20, 2018)

4. Scenario of digital transformation of the sector / field of activity

The scenario of digital transformation presupposes a systemic, accelerated digitalization of agricultural production and integration with the programs of the digital economy. The program dictates the need for inclusive use of logistic cargo transportation, stimulation of domestic consumption, development of export of products and construction of platforms that provide end-to-end digital solutions for the formation of value added and ensuring the competitiveness of Russian business. The program is created for:

- increase of labour productivity and business efficiency of agricultural producers;

- to ensure the most effective mechanisms of public administration in terms of financial support, training of citizens, the final solution of food security issues, and improving the living standards of the rural population.The scenario implies a step-by-step development of the digitization of Russian agriculture in production cycles. Taking into account the horizontal nature of the transformed sector as a whole, this will ensure the creation of chains of the life cycle of production and sales of products:Insurance Banks Consultants R'n'D Power Engineering Telecom IT Data Science HR Research Institutes E-commerce

Source materials

ProductionPrimary

processing, logistics, transport

Processing,food

production

Wholesale and retail

trade, distribution

Consumers

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(Input)Seeds Fertilizers Agricultural Chemistry Medicines, vitamins Fodder

Vegetables, fruitCereal plants MeatDairy products

Primary processing StorageTraders Biofuel

Bakery productsMeatDairy products Food, snacks, drinks

Hypermarkets, supermarkets, shops, restaurants, vending machines

Urban population,Rural population n population

Fig.1 Life cycle (source J’Son & Partners)

As part of the program’s activities, during the first phase (2018-2021) of the program implementation, the methods of stimulating the introduction of digital technologies by farmers “give & take model”2), are piloted, the collection and analysis of objective data from market participants, the reintegration and enrichment of data necessary for the digital economy from the state sources of information. Piloting takes place on the prototype of the public-private platform called Digital Agriculture with the participation of the information system of the Analytical Center of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The development of Internet of Things platforms for the management of agricultural machinery and equipment, the integration of data into different systems of corporate governance, the development of commercial applications called “digital field” and others are considered within the program in terms of providing a favorable regime for creating a highly competitive environment. The program creates a powerful incentive for the development of such platforms3. At the first stage, the participants of the program together with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation form and provide the process of determining dynamic seasonal KPIs for the agricultural sectors. A National Union of Digital Transformation of Agriculture is being established, which will act as the Program Competency Center, which ensures non-discriminatory access to the program by all stakeholders in the agro-industrial market. The Union is also responsible for the relationship on the development of Euro-Asian contacts in the field of digitalization of agriculture.The key task of the Union will be to study the effectiveness of the use of digital technologies, coordinate pilot implementation at enterprises in the regions of the Russian Federation. The Union will conduct an open handbook of available technologies and give recommendations to the Russian industrial complex for the

2 Mutually beneficial exchange of information and benefits between market participants and the state3 The participants of the working group believe that the creation of open platforms, including with direct support from the state, is part of the program's task, since the practice of public investment in digital solutions for shaping the common good shows its effectiveness (for example, the Internet).

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production, localization, development and import substitution of technologies of paramount importance. The Union will also provide:- classification of tasks and identification of problems in the field of introduction of cyber-physical systems (the Internet of Things), analysis of big data, integration of business management systems and traceability systems and other information systems used in agriculture;- ranking tasks in terms of importance and identifying specific problems related to the digitalization of the sector, including legal regulation;- formulation of decisions in the interests of the sector;- Consolidation of opinions of market participants and preparation of drafts of legal documents and their coordination with representatives of public authorities.The Union will work on interaction with state and municipal authorities on the issues of digital technologies and adaptation of legislation, as well as coordination with other areas of the digital economy.The Union will engage in analytical research aimed at digital development of the agribusiness, analysis of trends in the world economy, disclosure of export opportunities and development of recommendations for supporting domestic producers of digital solutions for the agro-industrial complex.

The second stage (2019-2024) involves large and medium-sized agricultural producers. Scaling of the approved technologies by business entities is taking place, including using incentive measures, by shifting state support in favor of enterprises introducing digitalization processes and technologies using methods of objective production control. This, in turn, will allow agricultural producers to integrate into the world economy using world standards of compliance with quality and traceability requirements. At the second stage, there is a digitalization of technologies for selective breeding, seed stock, the genetic stock of animal producers, the use of genomic selective breeding, and a digital plan for food security is separately formed.

Digital chains are being built to support the logistics of supply and marketing of products with parallel processes of digitalization of transport and logistics, the exchange of information received from vehicles, operators of digital platforms, interested federal executive bodies, the creation of digital logistics nodes (integrated clearing center).

A digital platform for providing social nutrition 4 on the principles of public–private partnership is being formed Technological and organizational bases for distance learning and advanced training of employees of agribusiness with access to the most advanced

4 Schools, army, Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN of Russia), medical institutions, etc.

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technologies in the field of agriculture and processing products are being formed and are being launched. Assistance is provided to scientific institutions of the Russian Federation working in the agricultural field in the launch of the scientific advisory system, producers of technologies for growing crops, animals and processing products. At the third stage (2022 - ...), an end-to-end system of information support in the field of agriculture will be created, all cycles of agricultural production will be digitized, which will ensure cost reduction and increase the availability of products, including by minimizing the participation of intermediaries in supply chains. There will be digital fragmentation (division of labour) and “uberisation” of farms (for example, an owner of cattle and dairy production is responsible only for feeding, paddling and milking, delivery of feed, medicines, slaughter, transportation of products is carried out by specialized companies).

At all stages, private digital production management platforms, cloud and edge systems 5 for managing cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things, prognostic platforms for information support of the solution of individual production tasks will be introduced. A key feature of the implemented digital platforms in agriculture is their openness and deep integration into the meta-system that provides support to the life cycle of the entire agricultural sector and quality control within the framework of a risk-oriented approach based on data analysis and forecasting models. The prototype of the meta-system is the state-private “digital agriculture” platform that continues its development from the first stage of the program. A reasonable balance is established between the openness of data and the confidentiality of data of participants in economic activities.

Digitalization of agriculture will require the training of personnel capable of servicing agricultural machinery and cyber-physical devices with a special technical education (not to be confused with programmers).

In general, the expert team of the digital economy program believes that a number of information platforms should be created within the digital transformation, most of which should be open to agribusiness participants. This should accelerate the introduction of digitalization, ensure competition between IT companies and consulting agencies and ensure the reliability of data in agriculture.

5. Expected conditions for business and government partnership

5 Calculations “at the ends” using the processor capacities of the workstations and processors used directly on the farms

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“Smart farming” 6, according to the world rating of the potential positive effect of global technologies, ranks first in the world, the digitalization of Russia's agriculture will require an active phase of investment in the companies of the agro-industrial complex7.

A significant part of the direct digitalization of processes is the introduction of the Internet of things, the development of applied mathematics, consulting and data processing. These are tasks that can be realized only with the involvement of private financing.

The first and second stages will be implemented, including by attracting investments from private and institutional investors. In general, Russia will have to pass the stage of attracting investments to digital agricultural technologies in analogy with the USA (2010-2012), as well as with the countries of Europe and Asia (active attraction of investments is currently taking place there). At the third stage, the working group members predict an active phase of mergers and acquisitions of participants in the digital market in the agricultural sector.

The main investments in the deployment and maintenance of technological equipment for digital agriculture (including during the implementation of pilot projects) will fall on the shoulders of business. The role of business is to introduce reliable, affordable, safe and cost-effective communications, computing power, information systems and services, digital platforms created with the priority use of domestic technologies that promote the development of agricultural production.

The role of the state and planning in the large-scale development of digital agriculture will grow substantially due to the provision of favorable fiscal and regulatory regimes, as well as the creation of a “heavy” infrastructure requiring the longest investments:

- established (incentive) rates of bank lending, depending on the degree of digitalization, expressed in the presence of mechanisms for obtaining objective data from the credited company;

- The established (incentive) rate of insurance premium, depending on the degree of digitalization, expressed in the presence of mechanisms for obtaining objective data from the company being credited;

- Providing access to online satellite sensing data and digital GIS substrates for maximum details;

- Direct participation of the state in solving international issues related to the increase in the volume of export products;

- Improvement of the legal regulation of the quality of foodstuffs, information space and simplification of the use and maintenance of the Drone and

6 The term “smart agriculture” is also used 7 Global Opportunity Report 2016

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unmanned aerial vehicles Register (amendments to: Resolution of the Government dated as of 07.03.2008 No. 157 “On the establishment of a system of state information support for agriculture”, Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated as of 30.07. 2010 No. 1292-r “On Approving the Concept of Development of State Monitoring of Agricultural Land and Land Used or Provided for agriculture in the composition of lands of other categories, and the formation of state information resources about these lands for the period up to 2020”, Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 297-r dated as of 03.03.2012 “On the approval of the Fundamentals of the State Policy for the Use of the Land Fund of the Russian Federation for 2012 – 2017”, Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated as of 01.11.2013 N 2036-r “On the Approval of the Strategy for the Development of the Information Technology Sector in the Russian Federation for 2014-2020 and for the Future until 2025”, Order of the Government of the Russian Federation 07/27/2017 N 1632-r “On the approval of Digital Economy of the Russian Federation program”, the Air Code of the Russian Federation, the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On Measures for the Implementation of the State Scientific and Technical Policy for the Development of Agriculture” dated as of July 21, 2016 No. 350, “Strategies to improve the quality of food products until 2030”, approved by the order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated as of June 29, 2016 No. 1364-r, Federal Law dated as of July 16, 1998 No. 101-FZ “On State Regulation of Provision of Soil Fertility for agricultural purpose”, the Federal Law “On Agricultural Land Transactions” dated as of 24.07.2002 No. 101-FZ);

- the deployment of state weather radars and the integration with private meteorological stations of legal entities that provide the most accurate local weather forecast using data analysis. The processing of thousands of data sources can be handled by Russian Internet technology leaders (such as Yandex or Mail.ru);

- the established systems of digital transport and logistics, together with wholesale distribution centers of agricultural products, become part of the agricultural production ecosystem. The state and private business within the framework of the program named “Digital Transport and Logistics” are partners in the construction of this infrastructure to meet the needs of agriculture.

Business for the purposes of digitalization of agriculture expects from the state participation in the following areas:

- formation of a methodology for planning, forecasting, monitoring and reporting in the implementation of the Agricultural Development Programs;

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- reducing the costs of companies in the provision of reporting and interaction with supervisory and supervisory bodies in a digital automated format. Native integration of reporting in near real-time mode. Preservation of traditional reporting methods for enterprises that do not support digital production support formats;

- making decisions more efficient by switching to electronic exchange of documents (information), automating procedures and processes, using automated decision support systems;

- ensuring coordination of activities of federal and regional executive bodies, local self-government bodies and interaction with business representatives on the development of the agriculture sector;

- provision of effective projects accessible for scaling in the regions of the Russian Federation, for example, Social Nutrition project: the formation of a food basket using digital traceable chains of food production;

- the creation of a system of educational programs that provide retraining, modern competence of specialists, the formation of the necessary competencies for digital agriculture;

- operative adaptation of the current legislation to the technological requirements necessary for the intensive introduction of digital agriculture;

- ensuring coordination of regional executive bodies and federal executive bodies in the implementation of digital technologies in rural areas;

- stimulating agricultural producers to introduce digital technologies through government support;

- assistance to telecommunications companies in expanding the coverage of communications on agricultural land;

- maximum implementation of electronic document management, reporting, automation of public services and decision-making systems.

6. The influence of sectoral strategies (program documents) on achieving indicators

The program assumes the adaptation of legislation regulating agriculture to new types of relations regulating the activity of new objects and subjects of digitalization of agriculture, the creation of infrastructure, technologies and platforms providing data acquisition, storage, processing and protection, training of qualified personnel, ensuring information security, applied solutions development for the new quality of information and telecommunication technologies. Introduction of technological solutions to the agricultural development program will help provide Russian companies with equal competitive conditions in the

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world market of agricultural products, and take the leading positions in the production and sale of organic products.

Significant indicators are the following:- the development of the Unified Information Management Space (UIMS),

which is adequate to the challenges of the time in the field of food security, production and market of agricultural products, raw materials and food, as well as the management of the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation.

- improving the quality and efficiency of making managerial decisions in the areas of ensuring food security and managing the agro-industrial complex (including in emergency situations), using modern analytical methods and tools for intellectual work with information, long-term and short-term forecasts for the development of agricultural production and the market of agricultural products, raw materials and food;

- increase on this basis the effectiveness of state support for Russian agricultural producers;

- operative satisfaction of the changing needs of users in government information resources and applied services in the areas of ensuring food security and agribusiness management;

- simplification and optimization of the spectrum of indicators of agribusiness information, reduction of the collection time, data processing and presentation to consumers, transition to real-time data processing;

- increase of reliability of agricultural census results and information on agricultural producers;

- reduction in the time taken to obtain data on hydrological and meteorological conditions, phytosanitary and epizootic conditions, the state of markets for agricultural products, raw materials and food, the state of technical, land and human resources;

- reducing the time for prompt response to challenges and threats with the aim of ensuring the necessary level of food security of the Russian Federation through the use of modern scientific methods for the formation of quality long-term and short-term forecasts for the development of agricultural production and the market of agricultural products, raw materials and food, as well as recommendations in the management of the agro-industrial complex;

- digital inventory and monitoring of agricultural land, increasing the level of control over the condition and use of agricultural lands;

- the maximum expansion of the range of public services and information services provided in electronic form to regional and municipal government authorities and agricultural producers of all forms of ownership;

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- creation of conditions for equal access of all citizens to information on the state of the agribusiness;

- intensification of the provision of scientific knowledge and practical recommendations in the field of agro-industrial complex;

- further improvement of the normative, technical and organizational and methodological base for the application of effective information technologies in the agro-industrial complex. Wide introduction of modern information technologies in ensuring the activities of the agribusiness management bodies and regulation of the agro-food market;

- information security (the system of state information support in the field of agriculture) at a level adequate to the nature of threats to information security and the importance of the tasks of ensuring food security of the Russian Federation, taking into account changes in the system of state information support in the field of agriculture that occur during its development.

7. The possibility of integration of the new trend initiatives with the programs of the National Technological Initiative

At the moment, the following programs of the National Technology Initiative have been adopted: EnergyNet, HealthNet, AeroNet, MariNet, NeuroNet.

In accordance with the Roadmap for the National Technology Initiative, Russian companies should actively engage in the implementation of the smart agriculture strategy (automation, artificial intelligence, and Big Data are used in production).

The program of digitalization of agriculture fits perfectly into the strategy of FoodNet program.

The implementation of the program on digitalization of agriculture will be a link in the construction of the “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” and provides for the transition of the Russian agribusiness to high-tech production and reduction of dependence on imports, as well as the entry of Russian companies into promising global markets.

8. The possibility of integration with the current branches of Digital Economy of the Russian Federation program

Digital Agriculture program integrates with the following branches of the Digital Economy program:

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Information infrastructure program in the development of broadband access networks, the development of 5G. Segments of the development of NB-IOT and LPWAN networks to provide telemetric infrastructure as one of the main technological elements of cyber-physical systems are of particular importance.

Legal regulation program in the development of standards for Internet of Things and public-private partnerships.

Transport and Logistics program in the development of logistics supply and delivery of agricultural products, as well as controlling the parameters of goods (temperature, humidity, delivery time and much more).

Scientific and technical aspects program in the part of stimulating the development of knowledge-intensive initiatives in the field of Big Data, artificial intelligence, robotics and sensorics in the field of agro-industrial complex.

9. Opportunities for international cooperation (priority Eurasian Economic Union)

Within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union, there is Permits Working Group, which is part of the Working Group for the implementation of the plan of measures provided for by the Basic Guidelines for the Development of the Single Window Mechanism in the Eurasian Economic Union Member States Regulation System approved by the Decision of the Eurasian College Board Economic Commission dated as of 28 September 2015 No. 124.

The Working Group also includes thematic blocks: “Electronic customs”, “Payments and e-commerce”, “Transport and logistics”, “Information technologies”. Activities on the digitization of agriculture complement the plans for the development of international cooperation within the Eurasian Economic Union. With the digitalization of both the Russian agribusiness and the agribusiness of the Eurasian Economic Union member countries, it is possible not only to strengthen cooperation in the agrarian industrial field within the Eurasian Economic Union, but also, first and foremost, to successfully pursue and implement a coordinated policy regarding the export of agro-industrial products to foreign countries, implementation of integration systems for traceability of crop and livestock products and unified product quality standards.

Within the Eurasian Economic Union, a working group on Scientific and Technical Cooperation field has been established. The Eurasian Economic Union member states actively participate in the joint implementation of research and

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development activities on the topics: “Development of resource and energy-saving technologies and technical facilities for deep processing of cereals and vegetable crops” and “Development of promising low-cost technologies and machinery systems for the production and processing of milk”.

The development of a program for the digitization of agriculture in Russia will help to accelerate the harmonization of the legislation of member states in this field and will make it possible to use the means of state support effectively for agriculture of the member countries.

10. Opportunities for joint implementation of international projects

Cooperation is also possible with countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union, BRICS, ASEAN, regarding the study of initiatives to create a single digital market in Europe. Given the scale and diversification of agriculture in Russia, the results of the program can really provide Russia’s own domestic needs and world markets with environmentally safe quality products (including halal, kosher, which take into account national traditions).

11. The result image on 2021/2024 on the results of the implementation of the programs

Images of the digitization of agriculture

A producer of agricultural goods connected to the platform of digital agriculture has a set of tools that determine the parameters of the planned crop (animals) on the basis of historical data according to the parameters and climatic conditions in the given region.

A producer of agricultural goods, connected to the digital agriculture platform, automatically surrenders a set of aggregated parameters with characteristics of crops (herd), resources expended, local conditions (meteorological, hydrological). Production and financial reporting is provided automatically in a mode close to real time with the minimization of human participation.

Digital agriculture platform (exclusively) in the role of aggregator of banking services, insurance and other companies offers a choice of different options for lending (insurance), warehousing services and product sales. Subsidy packages, personal packages of technological solutions for the agricultural producers are available. Platforms of banks,

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insurance companies and many other market participants provide these services.

A multitude of competing but exchanging technological information platforms (on the basis of uniform standards and rules) ensure the sale of food products and agricultural products according to the model of direct deliveries from the producer to its final consumer (the so-called drop shipping model) excluding intermediaries.They control the processes of telemetry parameters and key points (temperature, humidity, timing, positioning, etc.).There is an opportunity to participate in bidding for the supply of products for government needs in electronic form.The control of the parameters of mobile objects (tractors, combines, livestock) and stationary (greenhouses, cowsheds, warehouses, etc.) of production facilities is provided, recommendations are available on the periods of use and the terms of modernization (updating) of equipment, predictive analytics for repair and logistics of spare parts.

The platforms that support the production processes, provide data on futures in the context of a particular agricultural crop, eco products, halal and kosher are implemented.Russia is the first in the world to produce such products.

Companies that manage platforms that support the production of agricultural products in the field of the Internet of things and technology management, “digital field” and “digital herd” applications will operate in the Russian market.By 2024, all domestic manufacturers of tractors and combines will be equipped with controllers compatible with international standards and allowing the use of Russian attachments for production of agricultural works.

Within the framework of the Unified Federal Land Information System of Agricultural Land, the agricultural lands are digitized, including the texture of the soil and the GIS substrate with a resolution of 1 meter.

State support measures depend on a set of objective data that agricultural producers will provide.

By 2024 universities and institutes will release the first specialists and will fully implement educational programs for training specialists in data processing, platform support, microelectronics and digital equipment for the agricultural sector.

Medium and small producers of agricultural goods increase productivity through fragmentation of production, uberisation and the formation of production chains with a controlled life cycle of products.The quality of the products is significantly increased.

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The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation is able to forecast the price of basic products before the beginning of the season, and the food security of the Russian Federation is ensured.

12. Proposal for Competence Center

The incorporation of the Digital Transformation of Agriculture National Union will be carried out for all interested parties in June 2018.

13. Schedule for the development of the action plan for the new branch - April 20, 2018 - presentation of the Digital Agriculture project, Digital Economy Autonomous Non-Profit Organization, and the strategic session of the IT and agricultural market participants;- May 21, 2018 - approval of the program by the Expert Council of Digital Economy Autonomous Non-Profit Organization;- June 2018 - establishment of Digital Transformation of Agriculture National Union Competence Center;- June 2018 - approval of Digital Agriculture draft program;- June 2018 - the formation and approval of the composition of the working group within the Competence Center- May - September 2018 Development of a detailed draft action plan and budget for Digital Agriculture program;- September 2018, consideration and approval of the draft action plan with the interested federal executive authorities;- October 2018 - the considered draft plan will be sent to the Competence Center and the Project Office;- November 2018. Consideration (revision) of the draft action plans.- December 2018 - Approval of the action plans by the Governmental Commission on IT;- December 2018. Approval of the Digital Agriculture program by the Government of the Russian Federation.

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14. The indicators proposed for the new branch in the dynamics for the control years (slide 12)

Indicator

Value

2018 2021 2024

Aggregation of end-to-end open information flows and data for the administration of the sector

Creation of the Unified Federal Information System on agricultural land and lands used or provided for agriculture within lands of other categories and connection to the prototype Digital Agriculture platform.Drawing up a forecast of market needs, dynamic management of supply and demand, preparation for the season.Digital Agriculture project developed and approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.Pilot programs are carried out to receive aggregated information from agricultural producers and to determine support measures based on objective data.

The Prototype of Digital Agriculture Platform works with the participation of companies, banks and insurance companies.The platform is connected to Transport and Logistics platform. There are platforms for export organization, several platforms of the Internet of things (equipment management).Several vendors of Digital field and Digital herd applications are working. A prototype of Social Nutrition platform is created.

Digital Agriculture Platform operates within the framework of the current legislation based on open data, state support measures are based on objective production data.All social nutrition is provided with mandatory objective data on the origin of the products. The food security of the Russian Federation is fully ensured.

Standardization,piloting and scaling

As part of the preparation of the action plan, the compatibility priorities for the standards are indicated, the list of open systems for piloting is formed

Through the implementation of pilot projects involving universities, research institutes and market participants, a set of basic open digital platform prototypes is created and documented, namely 1) equipment management (the Internet of things), 2) digital field and digital herd, 3) traceability, including genetic material, 4) applied tasks are realized (beacons of precise driving, Unmanned aerial vehicles, control of diseases, pests, foci of diseases, etc.).

Scaling is carried out, as well as the widespread introduction of production platforms, data analysis systems, predictive analytics, soil condition analysis, vegetation index and so on.

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Support is provided for global standards that ensure the use of hardware and software of various vendors.The Russian manufacturer of ICT systems, controllers, attachments is stimulated, and so on.

Creation of a traceability system for certain types of products

System of traceability of seed and livestock products

Systems of traceability of animals, plant protection products, fertilizers, private platforms for eco, halal, and kosher systems.Life-cycle management systems have been implemented for 10% of meat processing enterprises.

Systems of end-to-end traceability from the counter to production are introduced by 50% of processing companies.

The share of enterprises in the agro-industrial complex that use the Internet of things, precision farming, digital herds, smart greenhouses technologies

less than 1 % 20% 60 %

Share of agricultural landscovered byvarious communication technologies

less than 10 % 30% 70 %

The share of companies of the agro-industrial complex equipped with means of objective controland transmitting data for obtaining subsidies in electronic form

less than 10 % 50% 100 %

The quantity (volume) of agricultural products sold on electronic platforms

less than 10 % 50% 100 %

Number of private meteorological stations on agricultural lands

less than 1 million 3 million 7 million

Number of cargoes of medium and large companies of the agro-industrial complex moved within the Eurasian Economic Union with connection to

less than 10 % 50% 80 %

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the transport and logistics platform

Export data

25 billion US dollars 30 billion US dollars 50 billion US dollars

Percentage of jobs related to information technology, data processing and cyber-physical systems (Internet of things) in rural areas

less than 1% 8 % 20 %

15. More information on the new program

Information Used

To prepare the document for Digital Agriculture program, J’Son & Partners research materials were used, information on the implemented projects of Mobile Telesystems PJSC, ANT LLC, Infobis LLC, action plans for Internet of Things in the agro-industrial complex and Identification of animals action plan of the Internet of Things Market Participants Association, foreign sources and data of the following companies: McKinsey, PWC, Goldman Sachs, John Deere, CNH Industrial, Monsanto and others.

The points of the program are specified at the strategic session of Digital Economy Autonomous Non-Profit Organization with the participation of representatives of agrarian holdings, telecoms operators, banks, insurance companies, processing enterprises, professional non-profit associations of the industry, developers of Internet of Things systems and information systems.

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