Agroconsulting as a Tool to Improve the Efficiency of Strategic Planning in the Agricultural Sector

The study examines current issues of consulting support for strategic planning in the agricultural sector in the conditions of digital transformation of agriculture. The hypothesis has been determined and proved: the higher the quality of strategic planning, the higher financial result can be obtained by each enterprise of the agrifood complex, which has included strategic planning in the management process of the enterprise economic service functioning. The content analysis of the main elements of the economic category "Efficiency of strategic planning in agrifood complex" was conducted. Four principal approaches are singled out, the author's definition of this concept is proposed. The positive experience of the Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin in the part of consulting services to economic entities of agroindustrial complex of the Siberian Federal District in strategic planning is analyzed. Methodological aspects of strategic planning for the purpose of obtaining state support as well as borrowed financing sources were studied. A number of limitations for professional consultants in the process of drawing up investment projects both in form and in its economic content have been determined: the directions of improvement of strategic planning through the formation and development of information and consulting systems taking into account regional factors, which allows to control the implementation of programtargeted objectives and indicative indicators at the state, regional and municipal level, in conditions of intensification of the process of agroindustrial complex digitalization have been defined.