Many agricultural organizations are searching for innovative solutions in the engineering equipment of livestock premises in order to maintain an optimal microclimate in them. With stable keeping, the productivity of animals directly depends on the nutritional value of feed, a certain state of the air, temperature and humidity. The article provides a brief analysis of the indicators of economic activity of Temp LLC in the Kaliningrad region, whose main activity is dairy farming. A reduction in the productivity of dairy livestock and high growth rates of the cost of milk were revealed. Measures are proposed to maintain the microclimate in the cowshed using HB LED lamps and the PM-Kit curtain system controlled by automated Farm Management Support systems. The system allows to control many basic processes for animal care, but the article only covers lighting and air exchange. The measures will increase the average annual productivity of animals by 7.3% and reduce the cost of 1 cent. of milk by 4.6%.

The new technological structure of the fourth generation forces the active use of innovative technologies using information systems in all sectors of the econom

The article presents the economic justification for cultivating two mushroom varieties: OUSTER type Oyster Mushroom and Flammulina velutipes Velvet Shank Mushroom over a period of three years. The process equipment list and the cost of the equipment are provided. The project implementation would require greenhouses with the area of about 300 square metres, one-off capital investments of about 7 million roubles. Detailed estimation of annual current costs is presented and the cost of production is evaluated. The expected production profitability during the first year of the project implementation is 16.5%, in the second year it is 23.2%, and it is more than 27% in the third year. The project would propose a feasible solution for both medium and small agrarian businesses.The issue of obtaining readily available (or so called fast) protein for complete human nutrition is of global concern. Producing animal protein requires a long time for rearing; poultry protein production takes a little less, a few months; to obtain protein from mushrooms one month is enough. Mushroom cultivation could be a solution to the global challenge of ensuring world food security, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal to end hunger. On the other hand, changing market needs for food, sanction embargo and the tasks of the government import substitution programme in Russia stresses the need for developing domestic production.

With limited financial, material and labour resources, agricultural production has to optimize technology solutions for important crop cultivation. “Green” economy current trends recommend using soil treatment and crop tending technologies that are able to minimize doses of organic and mineral fertilizers applied, to reduce the degree to which plants have been treated with chemicals. This will generally improve the environmental safety of farming. Maize is one of the most important raw materials for animal feed, in varying degrees of cob ripeness it is used as green feed, harvested as silage or as mature grain. An affordable way of livestock product cost reduction is to save on direct production costs. It has been proposed to improve the maize cultivation technology under the specific farm conditions in the Nonchernozem belt of Russia, through replacing mechanic means, combining several operations in one run and substituting fertilizers in a rational way. It has been proposed to replace tractors MTZ-82.1 and K744R1 with more productive and economical New Holland T8.390 and New Holland T4 F. Ploughing can be performed with simultaneous application of complex fertilizers (diasophoska) and disс ploughing. The Vaderstad TopDown 900 is offered as a seedbed maker. The Challenger CH9824 seed planter has been replaced with the John Deere DB37, which provides simultaneous fertilizer application. The picker Acros 595 has been replaced with the more efficient and economical John Deere X9. Original pesticides have also been replaced with cheaper counterparts. As a result of the technological development, direct costs were reduced by 9.6%.