AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The article discusses the main directions and results of scientific research in the field of agricultural sciences within the framework of the Program of Fundamental Scientific Research in the Russian Federation for the long-term period (2021-2030), which allow strengthening the innovative scientific and technological potential of the country’s agro-industrial complex. The main efforts of scientists of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences are aimed at solving problems in the field of agriculture, land reclamation, water and forestry, crop production and plant protection, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, agricultural mechanization, storage and processing of agricultural products, agricultural economics, spatial development of rural areas. The authors note a systemic transition in research methods associated with the use of digital technologies, genetic and biotechnologies, neural networks, artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. Agricultural science has achieved significant results: highly productive plant varieties and animal breeds, poultry crosses have been bred and are widely introduced; agro-landscape adaptive farming systems and agroforestry methods to combat soil desertification have been developed; highly effective preparations for plant and animal protection have been created, as well as modern robotic technical means for plant growing, livestock farming and processing of products, safe functional food products.