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The digital transformation of agribusiness is a high priority these days, reporters learned from Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Anatoly Khotko. The official visited the Grodno State Agrarian University.

Agribusiness is becoming a high-tech branch of the economy. Modern agriculture relies on detailed measurements of all processes as well as information and analysis systems.

“Matters of digital transformation of this branch of the national economy are a high priority. For instance, management and administrative processes in the ministry primarily rely on information technologies now. Automated solutions and modern R&D products are increasingly used by the production sector. I am talking about bio-, DNA-, and nanotechnologies, about precision farming,” Anatoly Khotko said. The minister stressed that sophisticated technologies allow optimizing costs, effectively replacing manual labor, and rationally using the available resources.

Anatoly Khotko remarked that in the last few years agribusiness has developed and assimilated a number of automated information systems in various branches ranging from crop husbandry and animal husbandry to the record keeping and maintenance of equipment, vehicles, and machines. Today the critical tasks of digital transformation of agriculture include further improvement of information and communication technologies, the development and assimilation of innovative ways to use sophisticated technologies, and the implementation of the one-stop shop principle.