scientific approaches to the strategy of integrated development of agricultural technologies

Issue № 8, 2021, article № 7, pages 44-51

Language: Russian

Original language title: НАУЧНЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ К СТРАТЕГИИ КОМПЛЕКСНОГО РАЗВИТИЯ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ

Keywords: STRATEGIC TYPES OF AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM OF THE INDUSTRY, CAUSAL LAYERED ANALYSIS, THEORY OF INVENTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING, IDEAL FINAL RESULT, KINDS OF CONTRADICTIONS, PHYSICAL CONTRADICTIONS, STRATEGY FOR THE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract: The article describes the author's approach to the strategy for the integrated development of agricultural technologies. Initially, based on the classification of aspects of agricultural technology, strategic types of agriculture were presented. Due to the importance of the latter, it was recommended to develop all of them, regardless of whether or not they have the status of potential revolutionary technologies that could lead to a change in the technological paradigm of the industry. Further, for a deeper understanding, the strategic types of agriculture were analyzed using the strategic foresight tool—causal layered analysis. This analysis revealed the contradictoriness of the strategic types of agriculture relative to each other. To examine these contradictions, the methodology of the theory of inventive problem solving was used: the ideal final result in relation to agricultural activity was formulated and its contradictoriness was shown. As a result, the author's vision of the strategy concerned was presented as the one based on the following two stages. The first stage consists in the development of each of the strategic types of agriculture separately. The second stage involves determining an acceptable way of resolving the contradictions inherent in the ideal final result, and implementing that solution in practice. In view of the difficulty of carrying out the last stage (no one has yet found the optimal way of farming), this study indicates the presence of a grand scientific and social challenge. As an example of ways to resolve contradictions, the article—via the theory of inventive problem-solving methodology—offers some options for resolving physical contradictions between ensuring food security and the need to preserve the environment. The presented understanding of the integrated development of agricultural technologies is integral, long-term, and going beyond the dichotomy of developed and developing countries, in contrast, for example, to catch-up development. This approach can be used as an alternative when developing strategies for the development of Russia’s agriculture.

Authors: Korotchenia Valerii Mikhailovich