THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTION CENTER OF OREL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY AS A BASE FOR TESTING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
The most important components of the efficiency of an agrarian university are organizing practical training of students, realization of scientific studies on experimental plots, testing and implementation of results of intellectual activity in the conditions close to the production, demonstration at its base and transfer to the relevant sector and organizations of the region on the latest scientific and technological achievements in the agriculture, the possibility of attracting extra-budgetary funds, through the implementation of its products. The solution of these and many other topical issues of modern agricultural education is largely due to the activity and progressive development of scientific and production potential of educational and experimental farms of the agricultural universities. The provided material describes the ongoing projects on the activities of the Competence center for digital agriculture in the Orel region, the structure of the Digital Experimental Farm of the Orel State Agrarian University is given. The Digital Experimental Farm solves the following main tasks: development of the material-technical and educational-production base of the university; improving the efficiency and reducing the cost of the pilot production activities of the research and educational production center "Integration", based on the use of integrated end-to-end digital technologies; implementation of scientific, experimental and implementation activities in the field of digital transformation of agriculture; telematics of data on digital technologies implemented in the Digital Experimental Farm, investment costs, maintenance costs, cost reduction, increased productivity and productivity of business processes, video of technological processes, etc., for use in the conferences both outside the Digital Experimental Farm and on its territory with the possibility of on-site demonstration of technological processes; training of highly qualified specialists in the field of digital agriculture; accelerating the development of the domestic electronic and radio electronic industries applied to agricultural production. Testing and implementation of these directions will allow to creat a scientifically based and systematic system of actions for the implementation of digitalization initiatives in the agriculture.