Article received on December 3, 2020.
Development is commonly regarded as a complex process, the "highest" type of movement in society [2], leading to the transition of the system to a qualitatively new level. Development in agriculture involves the implementation of processes to improve production technologies, storage, and marketing of products, related structural changes in the elements of multi-structure agriculture, resource potential, aimed at the fullness and simplicity of meeting the needs of the population in the products of adequate quality and industry - in the raw material base.
Russian agriculture, which had passed the following stages in its development until the 2000s: automation (1967-1980), electronization (1980-1990), informatization (1990 - early 2000s) [4], is currently facing the challenge of intensive large-scale transformation of production processes formed by the requirements of global digitalization. At the same time, the agricultural sector of Russia faces the task of developing export potential in terms of import substitution, expanding the scale of organic production, conservation, and sustainable development of rural areas. The relevant issue is the study of conditions for the development of agriculture in Russia in these areas. The long absence of conditions for investment in domestic agriculture has led to lagging behind developed market economies in the use of information technologies at all stages of product creation, animal productivity, crop yields [5]. Particular attention should be paid to the study of the effectiveness of agricultural producers, since at this stage, the application of modern technologies in most enterprises is carried out at their own expense, despite the existence of special programs of state support [1].
Many publications of domestic and foreign economists are devoted to the study of the directions of agricultural development in Russia and abroad at the present stage. Most of them note the strategic need to intensify the agricultural sector of the economy [6-9] to ensure the food security of the country at a qualitatively new level with the full inclusion of agricultural production in the formation of the digital economy.