2022: Creation of a single digital platform for agriculture
At the end of October 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture announced the creation of a single digital platform for agriculture. According to Maxim Zakharov, Deputy director of the Department of Digital Development and Management of State Information Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture, the new solution will unite all information systems of the ministry.
As Maxim Zakharov stressed, this step should become an example for the industry, where every enterprise, at least a large one, “reinvents the wheel.” This, in his opinion, is not too critical yet, given the overall low level of digitalization in the industry. Enterprises will reach the appearance of standards, but not immediately, and they need to be pushed, including by setting an example.
It is obvious that digitalization is primarily intended to increase production efficiency. The starting point for this is the availability of reliable industry data,” said Dmitry Patrusheva, head of the Ministry of Agriculture, speaking at a strategic session on artificial intelligence held together with Sberbank in May 2022.
According to Patrushev, the collection and processing of industry information, including using big data, will be carried out within the framework of the “Single Window” information system. It was planned to put it into commercial operation by the end of 2022.
The Ministry of Agriculture believes that digitalization of the agro-industrial complex also contributes to improving the quality and safety of products. By October 2022, the Mercury system is operating in the country, which provides a unified information environment for veterinary medicine, increases the level of biological and food safety of products.
According to Patrushev, in the strategic perspective, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to create a unique digital ecosystem around agriculture, combining multi-level information management systems of the agro-industrial complex, related industries and departments.
2020: Development of the concept of the national platform “Digital Agriculture
” Lanit-Integration has developed the concept of the national platform “Digital Agriculture”. This was announced in Lanit on February 12, 2020.
The platform is being created in accordance with the departmental project of the Ministry of Agriculture of the same name – “Digital Agriculture”. At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture is also responsible for the development of the platform’s core. The competition for the development of the concept, as follows from the information of the tender of the Ministry of Agriculture on the official website of public procurement, the ministry held from September to October 2019.[2] The cost of creating the concept was 50 million rubles. However, the ministry signed a contract with Lanit for more than half the amount – 22.9 million rubles.
The second place according to the results of the tender for the creation of the concept was taken by the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In addition to him, three other organizations also participated in the competition – the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Scientific and Industrial Company High Technologies and Strategic Systems, and Management Systems.
The period in which Lanit was to develop the concept, according to the tender information, was the period from October 25 to December 31, 2019.
It was not possible to get acquainted with the text of the TAdviser concept, since the Ministry of Agriculture and Lanita did not provide the document to the publication, without explaining what this is connected with and when the document will appear in the public domain.
The platform will include more than 50 services necessary for the management of the industry, Lanit said.
According to representatives of Lanit, the concept assumes that the platform will include six sub-platforms providing for digitalization of the following areas of agriculture:
- land use and land management;
- product traceability;
- agrometeoprognozirovaniya;
- collecting industry data;
- information support and provision of services;
- storage and distribution of information materials.
Referring to the text of the concept, Pavel Svarnik, executive director of the Center for Strategic Development and Digital Transformation “Lanit-integration”, told TAdviser that the platform needs to be created in 2020-2024.
It is planned to develop the platform in stages, during which individual services of sub-platforms will be designed, developed and put into operation. The creation of groups of services and sub-platforms is expected as part of the implementation of 11 backbone initiatives, ” Pavel Svarnik told TAdviser.
About what exactly these backbone initiatives will be, he did not provide information to TAdviser.
The composition of the events, as well as the specific requirements for their results, will be determined by the customer separately in each case, but taking into account the concept of the platform,” Pavel Svarnik informed TAdviser.
The platform, as told in Lanit, will include more than 50 services necessary for the management of the industry. As examples of the platform’s services, Pavel Svarnik cited TAdviser two of them – solving the tasks of multifactorial monitoring and modeling of the development of diseases of crops and performing the function of agrometeoprognosis.
The platform’s services, as noted in Lanit, will be public and private. The latter means those that will fall under the control of non-governmental organizations. In this case, the operator, according to Pavel Svarnik, providing the industry with demanded services, will provide a certain level of service quality.
Only services that are aimed at solving state tasks of accounting, control and regulation in the industry will be funded from the federal budget. Whether those of them that will be managed by non-governmental organizations will receive state funding, he did not tell TAdviser, noting that the financing and management formats of the platform have yet to be formed. Also, according to Svarnik, in the case of the platform, not its total cost will be calculated, but the price of creating separate sub-platforms and services will be determined.
Speaking about the large number of platform services, Pavel Svarnik told TAdviser that the sub-platforms will have a different number of services of varying complexity, and one of them will have “only one service”.
The platform’s services will be aimed primarily at meeting the current needs of representatives of different segments of agriculture, which is why there will be so many of them,” Pavel Svarnik said.
First of all, the platform’s services will be useful for agricultural producers, Lanit is confident. In particular, they will allow operators to provide services throughout Russia. At the same time, Pavel Svarnik explained to TAdviser that the service of the platform, which, due to the services provided, has a geographical reference – for example, the departure of the brigade to the field – will not be able to be implemented simultaneously by one supplier throughout the country.
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But services related to data processing and analysis can be provided remotely for users of different regions. As an example, an analysis of the type of crop disease carried out on the basis of photography data can act here, ” Pavel Svarnik informed TAdviser.
One of the requirements of the Ministry for the creation of the concept, as Alexander Arkhipov, director of the Department of Digital Development and Management of state information Resources of the agro-industrial complex of the Ministry of Agriculture, told TAdviser, was the accounting of personal data as one of the key assets of the industry and its focus on the application of modern principles of their collection and processing.
This approach will allow us to move quickly in the implementation of the concept’s activities,” Alexander Arkhipov explained.
The interaction of participants of the agro-industrial complex in electronic form, which the platform implies, according to Lanit calculations, will allow laying the foundations for new approaches to farming. For example, precision farming and crop yield forecasting. In turn, the data aggregated by the platform will be able to increase the transparency and predictability of processes for market participants, as well as reduce the risks of financial institutions implementing the issuance of funds for targeted industry programs.The implementation of the platform will allow the state to reach a new level of control of the industry, to get a more flexible management system based on complete reliable and up-to-date data,” said Murat Marshankulov, Managing Director of Lanit-Integration.
The implementation of the platform will allow the state to reach a new level of control of the industry, to get a more flexible management system based on complete reliable and up-to-date data,” said Murat Marshankulov, Managing Director of Lanit-Integration.
At the same time, the information collected by the platform’s services, in his opinion, will also be in demand by organizations of related industries: suppliers of means of production and material resources, banks and insurance companies, buyers of agricultural products, logistics companies. Moreover, Lanit is confident that the platform will become the basis for building an entire ecosystem of additional services and services for the agro-industrial complex.
2018: Development of the departmental project “Digital Agriculture”
The Ministry of Agriculture has developed a departmental project “Digital Agriculture”, which is planned to be fully implemented in the period from 2019 to 2024. This was stated by State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Ivan Lebedev on October 17, 2018 during an expanded meeting of the scientific and expert council of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues.
According to Ivan Lebedev, the project budget will amount to 304 billion rubles. Half of these funds are planned to be received from the state as an additional subsidy, the other 152 billion rubles – from extra-budgetary sources, namely, from agro- and IT businesses.
By digital agriculture, as follows from the text of the project available on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry understands agriculture based on modern methods of production of agricultural products and food using digital technologies (Internet of Things, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, e-commerce, etc.), ensuring productivity growth and cost reduction production.
The aim of the project is the digital transformation of agriculture through the introduction of digital technologies and platform solutions to ensure a technological breakthrough in the agro-industrial complex and achieve productivity growth at “digital” agricultural enterprises by 2 times by 2024.
The project provides for a set of measures to implement digital technologies and platform solutions in the agro-industrial complex. Within the framework of it, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to implement, create and develop a number of software products, namely:
- the national platform of digital state management of agriculture “Digital agriculture”;
Among the goals of the platform is to provide an opportunity to identify and analyze point problems and conditions that hinder the development of digital technologies in the agro-industrial complex of the regions of Russia, as well as to identify the main and most promising digital technologies for agricultural producers.
Another purpose of the platform is to accumulate data of federal executive authorities on agricultural lands for their subsequent accounting, monitoring and analytics.
The project also states that the Digital Agriculture platform will allow you to build work and provide a system of access to information about the counterparty, which, in turn, will make it possible to promptly inspect enterprises when solving serious issues, such as financing organizations, as well as their lending and insurance. In addition, the platform will make it possible to remotely control the quantity of the product received, its quality, the processing process, movement and other operations.
- module “Agricultural solutions”;
This module will be a sub-platform of the national platform “Digital Agriculture”, designed to improve the efficiency of agricultural producers. Among the tasks of the sub-platform is the achievement of the following indicators:
- increase in labor productivity at agricultural enterprises by 2 times per employee;
- reduction of unit costs of enterprises for business administration by 1.5 times;
- reduction of the share of material costs in the unit cost of agricultural products (fuel, fertilizers, electricity, planting material, feed, etc.) by 20% or more.
The project also provides for the creation of an industry-specific electronic educational environment “Land of Knowledge” for distance learning of specialists of agricultural enterprises.
«Together, these services will accumulate the entire array of information about production processes in the field of agriculture, starting with the smallest details of production and ending with solutions to global issues of the entire agricultural sector. This will bring agriculture to a new level of development and
will allow making a technological breakthrough in the agro-industrial complex, the project notes.»
In addition to creating software products, during the implementation of the project, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to train specialists of agricultural enterprises, forming their competencies in the field of digital economy.
A source: https://www.tadviser.ru
