The impact of digital technologies on the organizational and economic mechanism for ensuring transport services for agricultural producers under extraordinary challenges

The article emphasizes the prospects for enhancing the agricultural sector’s efficiency through infrastructure modernization, balanced development of logistics systems, expansion of multimodal transportation, introducing digital technologies at the regional level, and establishing interaction among all participants in the transport and logistics chain. The analysis makes it possible to assert that the digitalization of logistics processes, particularly the implementation of transport monitoring systems, predictive planning, load analytics, and route optimization, can significantly increase the delivery efficiency index and improve the fundamental elements of agricultural transport services’ organizational and economic mechanism. It is reasonable to consider that, under current conditions, a key component of the modern organizational and economic mechanism is the system of public regulation, which ensures equal access for agricultural producers to transport services, contributes to rural infrastructure development, stimulates investment in logistics hubs, and supports innovative solutions. There are grounds to state that integrating logistics services within public support programs for agriculture requires alignment with spatial development forecasts and state-level strategies. In this context, implementing public-private partnership mechanisms is a critical factor, as it facilitates the mobilization of additional financial resources and managerial expertise for developing transport infrastructure in the agricultural sector. The presented data indicates that digitalizing logistics processes such as electronic document management, real-time transport monitoring systems, and automated supply chain management—has become a key factor in enhancing transparency, responsiveness, and operational efficiency within logistics systems. The arguments provided lead to the conclusion that digital technologies optimize costs and enable a new quality of institutional interaction, automation of control, and trust among all logistics stakeholders. There are objective grounds to conclude that agricultural transport provision’s modern organizational and economic mechanism cannot function effectively without a digital component, ensuring flexibility, adaptability, and strategic resilience in a rapidly changing environment. Keywords: digitalization, organizational and economic mechanism, challenges, regulatory instruments, forecasting, innovations, transport services, agricultural products, infrastructure, transport system, sector, regulatory mechanism, multimodal transportation, production efficiency, logistics, competitiveness, extraordinary challenges, agriculture.