Scientific support of priority technologies agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation

The article, based on the materials of the report at the general meeting of RAS members, examines the scientific provision of priority technologies and technical means that are necessary for the development of the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. The main efforts of scientists of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences are aimed at increasing soil fertility, preventing desertification and land degradation, obtaining productive plant varieties and animal breeds based on the latest genetic technologies, creating effective vaccines and plant protection products, developing automated and robotic technical means for crop production and animal husbandry, producing functional safe food products, forming economic models development of agriculture.