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Along with other priority sectors - industry, healthcare, transport and construction - agriculture has significant economic potential, said Sergey Nakvasin, director of the National Center for the Development of Artificial Intelligence under the Russian government.

“According to expert estimates, in the conditions of mass introduction of AI, it can provide an increase in gross value added (GVA) by 2025 by 25% in crop production and by 13% in animal husbandry,” the expert noted.

According to him, in order to stimulate agricultural producers, the authorities are considering the issue of the mandatory use of AI technologies as part of receiving state subsidies. Since 2021, the federal project "Artificial Intelligence" has been developed and is being implemented in Russia as part of the "Digital Economy" national project. The measures included in this project include the development of human resources, stimulation of scientific research, financial support for the development of new and implementation of existing AI solutions.

“Under the current conditions, business quickly adapted and realized that artificial intelligence is no longer the technology of the future, not an exclusive product, but a necessary reality, something that already now allows you to remain competitive and efficient,” notes Maxim Kolesnikov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia. — Our task as a state is to ensure the large-scale implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in all sectors of the economy. The agricultural sector is no exception here.

The use of AI technologies in crop production helps to assess the condition of the soil and plants, control the process of cultivation and harvesting, increase the productivity of agricultural land, predict yields, adverse natural impacts, and maintain optimal crop growing conditions.

AI technologies in animal husbandry allow you to select the diet for animals, monitor their condition, identify activity patterns, analyze movements and postures, preventively respond to health problems, control the process of fattening livestock, conduct an inventory of livestock and monitor movement. AI solutions can also reveal new relationships between care conditions and livestock health to prevent disease.

There are a lot of cases of application of solutions based on artificial intelligence by Russian farmers, follows from an analytical report prepared by ANO Tsifrovaya ekonomika. Thus, large agricultural holdings are already using technologies and digital products with artificial intelligence in their activities - crop and harvest management, satellite monitoring of agricultural land, management systems for agricultural enterprises, agricultural machinery and others, lists Deputy Minister of Agriculture Elena Fastova. Today we see a large number of domestic solutions that have proven a business effect and are ready for replication in the industry, adds Grigory Borisenko, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media.