A working group proposes connecting public and private services. Its estimates for productivity gains and lower costs are projections, not measured results.
An expert group helping prepare Russia’s platform-economy strategy has proposed using the Unified Digital Platform for the agricultural and fisheries sectors to create an environment for “end-to-end digital transactions.” The aim is to avoid repeatedly entering and checking information about participants, production facilities, product lots, quality, contracts, logistics and payments at different stages.
The proposal appears in a presentation for an October 6 meeting of an interagency working group on digital platforms. RBC said it had obtained a copy, whose authenticity was confirmed to the outlet by the group’s chair, Olga Chebunina, chief executive of Agropromtsifra.
The proposal would connect transaction participants through a single sign-in based on Russia’s Unified System of Identification and Authentication (ESIA), along with shared profiles and identifiers for fields, product lots and animals. The presentation says access to equipment, credit and better prices should depend on verified data rather than personal connections. A grain transaction could involve a producer, processor, trader, exporter, elevator, carrier, bank and insurer.
The presentation gives projected timelines: updating information in state information systems could fall from 10 business days to one hour, while a standard contract could take four to 24 hours instead of five to 20 business days. The authors estimate that selecting harvesting equipment would take one day, as would assessing a crop lot as collateral, compared with three to 10 days currently.
The working group estimates that the platform could raise productivity by 6% to 9% and cut costs by 30% to 40%. These are projections from the proposal’s authors, not results from a system already in operation. They attribute the expected gains to less manual data entry and duplicate checking, faster approvals and fewer delays.
The presentation also proposes integrating Russian platforms into international trade chains and, at a later stage, offering services when users need them. Another scenario under consideration would allow AI agents to prepare transactions on behalf of farms.
RBC reported that 18 state information systems currently operate in the agricultural sector, including Grain and VetIS, alongside private marketplaces and production-service platforms such as Pole.rf, Svoe Fermerstvo, AgroSignal, AssistAgro and Agrika.
Chebunina stressed that the proposal is not to create another platform to replace existing public systems and private services. Instead, the goal is to connect them so data can be reused at different stages without being entered and checked again. The Unified Digital Platform would serve as a single access point to government data and services, while existing state information systems would retain their functions and remain the legally authoritative data sources.