Technical Modernization of the AIC: The Analysis of the Status and Prospects of Its Implementation at the Modern Stage

Abstract

In recent decades, Russia has seen a downward trend in the number of agricultural machinery, which is associated both with dramatic changes in the country’s economy, such as a decrease in cultivated land, a change in the organizational and legal forms of management, natural aging and retirement of equipment, and the global trend to increase the energy saturation of machines, leading to a reduction in their quantitative expression, as well as problems in production associated with the world financial crisis and the international political situation. The authors of the paper analyze the reasons that led to the current state of the agricultural machinery fleet, the results of the implementation of state programs focused on the development of agriculture and food markets in 2008–2013 and 2013–2020. Currently, there is a steady growth in the agricultural sector, which should also be supported by government support for updating the technical base. The solution to the above problems will help to maintain high rates of renewal of the fleet of agricultural machinery and ensure the successful implementation of the subprogram of technical modernization of the Russian agricultural sector.