Digitalization as Tool of Innovative Development of Agrarian Territories

The article considers the impact of digitalization on the innovative processes in the economic agrarian sector. Today a key trend of agricultural development is digitalization. It will help increase the volume of agricultural production and the profitability of the agroindustrial complex industries. In the developed countries, digitalization has a positive effect creating new management principles and rules for the innovative activity conduct. In Russia the development of digital economics and the introduction of innovations into the agroindustrial complex is limited by depleted technical facilities, financial pressure and staff qualification. In the framework of the research the authors have identified that the digital technology introduction will increase labor efficiency, product quality, decrease inflation and unemployment providing for a stable economic growth. However, most technologies are accessible only for large and medium business. The authors suggest forming IT platforms in the agrarian sector of the country’s macroregions with the state&private interaction in part of innovation introduction. Understanding the importance of digital technology introduction into the economic agrarian sector as a method of increasing the efficiency of agricultural production, the state builds a general strategy of breakthrough innovation introduction. Consequently, digital technologies will accelerate the integration of various economic areas transforming the innovative processes into an essential trend of economic development.