EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURE DIGITALIZATION: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT RESULTS AND METHODS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH?

DOI 10.32651/231-57

Issue № 1, 2023, article № 7, pages 57-65

Section: DIGITALIZATION IN THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА: ЧТО МЫ ЗНАЕМ О РЕЗУЛЬТАТАХ И МЕТОДАХ КОЛИЧЕСТВЕННЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ?

Keywords: DIGITALIZATION, AGRICULTURE, PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY, ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY, PRECISION AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING

Abstract: When assessing the effectiveness of the digital transformation of the agro-industrial complex, industry participants often operate with evaluation indicators. In this article we solve the problem of analyzing and summarizing the results of available quantitative research in the Scopus database for 2010-2022, which are at the intersection of two topics - "digitalization of agriculture" and "economics". The article presents both the identified production and economic effects of the introduction of digital technologies and the main methods used in this type of research, which is important in terms of defining the design of quantitative research, including on Russian data. Against the background of a large number of studies focusing on the savings of individual cost elements due to digital technologies, the article focuses on examples of publications based on net profit, which allows us to determine the impact of digitalization on the economy as a whole. In addition, the influence of digital technology on the greening of agriculture is considered, and the ambiguity of this influence is shown. Several common factors for the effectiveness of digitalization identified in the analysis of publications are highlighted, despite their differences in the technologies, crops or industries under study and the methods used. It is shown that the most studied are the effects for precision farming technologies on the example of the main cash crops of crop production. At the same time, empirical assessments of the effectiveness of precision livestock technologies are few, which require additional research in this area. One of the reasons for this shift may be a reflection of the actual situation of innovation activity by sub-sectors of agriculture in the world.

Authors: Nikulina IUliia Nikolaevna