Evolutionary trends of the technical means of production of the agrarian sector of economics

The technical means of production evolution chronology based on the achievements of scientific and technological progress has been studied, the conjugation of the increase in scientific potential and the pace of modernization of technology has been revealed. It is confirmed that scientific achievements, being the theoretical basis for improving technology, stimulate the implementation of promising production technologies, advanced technical means and systems. The efficiency and effectiveness of production depends both on the competent use of technical means and the amount of scientific and practical knowledge. The speed of the scientific and technological progress forms the current state of technology, stimulating the digitalization of many areas of society and production. Attracting a computer product, information technologies and IT systems, coupled with a scientific resource, opens up vast prospects for humanity to transform nature in the production of material wealth, to reveal human abilities. In the economic science, technical and technological means are considered as a production and economic system of organizing natural forces: combination of equipment and technologies that are used by each member of society to create, accumulate all benefits, improve human potential: in science, creativity, art. Thereby, materialized human labor is embodied in engineering and technology, acquiring the economic form of the cost of consumer and technical means. The scientific and technological progress serves as a motivation factor for the steady development of productive forces, and consequently, the performance indicators of the agricultural sector of production increase. The relations of production and their nature are determined by the increase in the productivity of social labor, in which the progress of technical means is manifested. This article provides conceptual information about the periods of modernization of the technical means of production from simplified machine systems to sophisticated five-link ones, including those that include software and hardware digital platforms.