Implementation of information and communication technologies based on satellite navigation systems in the agricultural and industrial complex of Belarus: problems and prospects

Current technological and economic lagging of the agro-industrial complex of Belarus is largely due to underestimation of progressive capabilities of modern information and communication technologies and their very slow and limited introduction into the country's agriculture. The article provides a brief analysis of the main types of machinery used in crop farming in the country. It is established that the modern level of equipping domestic agricultural machinery with elements of satellite navigation lags behind the level of equipping with the corresponding systems of the machine tractor fleet of the EU and US countries by 10 and 15 times, respectively. The share of agrarian enterprises actively using various elements and systems of precise agrarian technologies on the basis of terrestrial and satellite remote monitoring, navigation and control means does not exceed 6% of the total number of all enterprises of the agro-industrial complex of the republic. The trends are analyzed and the prospects of using innovative information and analytical systems based on satellite navigation are examined to increase the efficiency of the machine and tractor fleet and the technical services of the agro-industrial complex.