The Ministry of Digital Development notes that the agricultural sector can become one of the leaders in the field of implementing AI technologies.
The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, said that agriculture is one of the industries in which artificial intelligence technologies are being implemented the most today.
According to him, there are a large number of areas in which such a practice is simply irreplaceable today.
Firstly, these are technologies that help farmers in their daily work. For example, this is crop surveying with drones, as well as targeted application of fertilizers.
All this allows increasing labor productivity while reducing costs. For example, drones allow replacing the work of many workers who would have to arrive at the site and analyze the condition of crops.
It is noted that the combination of “drones + artificial intelligence” allows for prompt and very objective assessment of the condition of crops by many parameters, ranging from the level of ripeness to the damage of the field by weeds or pests.
Therefore, it is obvious that this practice will be actively developed in the foreseeable future.
Secondly, the introduction of advanced technologies in the field of agriculture is absolutely inevitable in order to solve the personnel issue, which is very acute in this area today.
The Minister noted that workers, especially young people, will not go to live in the village if there is no stable Internet and mobile communications. In this regard, experts note that the digitalization of rural areas is one of the highest priority tasks today.
It is expected that over the next 5 years, about 7.5 thousand more settlements in Russia should be connected to the mobile Internet.
It is planned that in general, the work on the digitalization of rural areas in the Russian Federation should be completed by about 2030.
At the same time, experts are confident that digitalization and artificial intelligence should significantly help farmers increase labor productivity. This will be especially useful for small farms.
It is also emphasized that robotization may be one of the possible answers to the most serious challenge of personnel shortage, which is felt today in many industries, and especially in agriculture.
“In the near future, robotization and artificial intelligence technologies will be introduced into all areas of agriculture,” notes Andrey Ronzhin, director of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
