About training of personnel for digital agriculture

摘要

The article reveals essential issues of personnel training for digital agriculture. The results of the expert survey of 54 agricultural universities top management of the country, devoted to issues of personnel training for digital economy, have been described. As a result of the study, the ranking of competencies required by the specialists of the agricultural sector in the digital transformation of the economy has been made; the project of competencies for the formation of pass-through digital literacy has been developed; the systemic contradictions and problems of personnel training in the conditions of digital transformation of the economy in general and agriculture in particular have been identified, grading of which will allow to increase digital literacy in the agricultural sector. The main obstacles for the development of personnel training system for digital agriculture have been highlighted: digital inequality between rural and urban population; insufficient development of the agrarian universities facilities; fragmentary formation of digital competencies; requiring a transition to the comprehensive education of these skills through the improvement of educational programs at the level of secondary vocational education, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies; different speed of requirements change for the competencies of modern specialists and for educational programs updating; lack of effective technologies to form interdisciplinary competencies and skills in the educational system; insufficient flexibility of the existing system of personnel training in the agricultural sector of the economy due to the lack of practice in the formation of short "digital" competencies in the online education system.