In this article, the problem of training specialists with digital competencies for the agricultural sector, as the main industry, necessary for the food security of the state. The analysis of the views of researchers on the issues of teaching youth in the context of global digitalization is presented. The analysis and generalization of information about modern technologies in the system of training personnel for the agro-industrial complex, taking into account the experience of the Omsk State Agrarian University, with the support of modern information and communication technologies. The idea is substantiated that digitalization of production and management processes in the agro-industrial complex is impossible without hard and soft skills with new competencies. The article summarizes new material based on the results of a survey of rural youth in Russia and Kazakhstan on the problem of professional self-determination. The characteristic features of modern students and their self-positioning in the conditions of a changing professional environment are highlighted and described. Special attention in the work of the authors is focused on the need to form an educational trajectory, which is based on the symbiosis of classical agricultural education, practice-oriented learning, project activities, concepts - technologies, e-learning and other digital educational resources. The conclusion reveals the authors' opinion on the forecast trends on the issue under study.

The article deals with the problem of a severe shortage of specialists in the field of management who are able to efficiently introduce innovative technologies in the sectoral labour market. The article describes the competences, including metadisciplinary and digital ones, which an updated manager should possess. The ways of transition to the digital economy are analysed, while up-to-date approaches to the training of future specialists, as well as the development of a "lifelong learning" continuing education system are unfolded.The experience is proposed for replication in the form of an information platform for providing information to organisations of the agro-industrial complex, small farms and rural population about technologies, measures for the development and support of rural areas, level of financial investments made, production potential and possible development reserves. The experience in project management for the promotion and implementation of innovative ideas of students, scientists and other participants of the university ecosystem in the formation of objective foundations for the creation of training grounds for future practices is presented. The article is intended for specialists in the field of education, science, technology transfer and rural development.

In today's conditions, the problem of reviving the village is becoming increasingly acute in order to improve the level and quality of life of the local population and ensure the country's food security. The main goal of the research is to identify possible directions for the development of agrarian territories on the basis of multifunctionality and diversification of the rural economy. The article contains a brief theoretical analysis of the concept of “multifunctional agriculture” in relation to agricultural territories based on domestic and foreign practice, and the functions performed by agriculture are established. The current level of socio-economic development of agriculture in Siberia is assessed. The features of its development are disclosed, the influence of the multifunctional nature of agriculture on the development of agricultural territories is determined. To determine the promising areas of rural development, the potential of agrarian territories in the development of sources and opportunities for the economic activity of the population has been identified, and the need to diversify the agricultural sector of the Siberian economy as the basis for the development of multifunctional agriculture in conditions of economic instability has been proved. Within the framework of the study, for the realization of the ecological, social and economic functions of agriculture on the basis of diversification of the rural economy, promising directions for the development of agrarian territories have been proposed that can speed up the recovery of the rural economy of Siberia.

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Косенчук Ольга, кандидат педагогічних наук, доцент, доцент кафедри педагогіки і психології дошкільної освіти та дитячої творчості, Національний педагогічний університет імені М. П. Драгоманова.