Assets
The Rosselkhoznadzor is a federal executive body exercising functions of control and supervision in the field of veterinary medicine, quarantine and plant protection, safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals, ensuring soil fertility, ensuring the quality and safety of grain, cereals, compound feed and components for their production, by-products of grain processing, land relations (with regard to agricultural land), forest relations (with the exception of forests located on lands of specially protected natural areas), functions to protect the public from diseases common to humans and animals. The service was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of various controlling state bodies and structures.
Digitalization
2024: How is the digitalization of Rosselkhoznadzor
Rosselkhoznadzor is actively developing information systems, as well as introducing artificial intelligence tools that increase efficiency. On May 28, 2024, the head of the department, Sergei Dankvert, reported to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
According to Dankvert, the created analytical modules help solve many issues and greatly simplify the work. The current information systems make it possible to assess the ratio of production and consumption of agricultural products in each region, to form ratings of suppliers, to identify unnecessary intermediaries and alternative producers. Due to this, the effectiveness of taking preventive measures has increased 13 times.
Today we can do without scheduled checks, because they do not give us almost the results that we have thanks to the analysis of the information received, "says Dankvert. |
As of May 2024, the Rosselkhoznadzor launched five modules based on AI. Such tools facilitate the work of specialists who analyze certain facts in order to identify various violations, such as changes in shelf life, lack of raw materials, inconsistency in the production of raw materials with product volumes, etc. In addition, AI tools make it possible to identify abnormal routes of movement of goods, assess the effectiveness of the use of vehicles, etc. In general, the introduction of AI technologies can significantly reduce the response time to all kinds of violations.
The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor also said that the development of digitalization continues in new regions. The service, in particular, provides local agricultural producers with full access to electronic veterinary and phytosanitary supporting documents.[1]
2022: Establishment of the Department for Digital Transformation and Information Security
As it became known at the end of October 2022, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor) creates a digital transformation and information security (IS) department in its structure.
As reported in the explanatory note to the draft government decree, which was developed by the Rosselkhoznadzor, the initiative "was prepared in order to ensure the creation of an independent specialized structural unit (department) in the Rosselkhoznadzor, which performs functions for digital transformation and information security." Thus, the number of departments in the main areas of activity of the service, which can be created in the central office of the Rosselkhoznadzor, increases from six to seven.
To form the staff of the new department, the document provides for an increase in the maximum number of federal state civil servants of the central office of the Rosselkhoznadzor by reducing vacant civil service posts in the territorial departments of the department.
The new office will carry out information security functions, including detecting, preventing and eliminating the consequences of computer attacks and responding to computer incidents. It is noted that during 2022, the information resources of the Rosselkhoznadzor were repeatedly subjected to large DDoS attacks.
By October 25, 2022, the draft resolution on the creation of a department for digital transformation and information security in the structure of the Rosselkhoznadzor was agreed with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Rosselkhoznadzor, and positive conclusions of the Ministry of Justice and the Accounts Chamber were also received for the document, the Rosselkhoznadzor notes.[2]
2020: Provision of issue numbers for introduction of UHF RFID technology in animal husbandry to Siltek Group of Companies
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of the Russian Federation (Rosselkhoznadzor) and Siltek Group of Companies signed an Agreement on Cooperation to ensure the labeling, identification and accounting of productive animals belonging to agricultural organizations of all forms of ownership. This was announced on May 26, 2020 by the Siltek Group of Companies. Read more here.
2018: Interaction with ISBC on the creation of the animal internet in Russia
The ISBC group of companies became the first independent organization in Russia to be granted the official right to identify animals by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor). This was reported to TAdviser on December 19, 2018 by ISBC representatives. According to them, as part of pilot projects, ISBC plans to create electronic animal identification and accounting systems that provide radio frequency (RFID) identification for veterinary, zootechnical and breeding purposes. Read more here.