Modern digitalization opportunities are very broad and cover the entire agricultural sector. The paper considers the potential of digital transformation of production, the goals and economic benefits of digitalization for agricultural producers. The authors studied the four main directions of digitalization of production processes in the agro-industrial complex. The financial support of the project of digitalization of agriculture, the structure of funding in the dynamics over a number of years, including at the expense of the region were analyzed. The paper identifies the problems of digitalization of small businesses, the digital divide between urban and rural areas. The authors formulated the main external and internal tasks of the digital transformation of the agro-industrial complex, which will provide a highly efficient production in the future.