Innovation activity in agriculture and the issues of its assessment

Abstract

The article describes the level of innovative activities of Russian agricultural businesses based on currently accepted indicators and justifies the limitations for their application in agriculture, taking into account its peculiar features. As an example the article considers a large agro-holding, which conducts active innovative activities aimed at the development of precision agriculture. The article shows the potential of correlation-regression analysis for the detection of the influence of particular technological innovations on the obtained result, as well as the potential of timeseries analysis for the assessment of major agriculturally-significant climatic risks.