This book features selected papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2026), Kaliningrad, Russia, on June 01-05, 2026. The contributions, written by professionals, researchers and graduate students, cover topics in the field of agriculture, microbiology and biotechnology, robotics, information technology and economics for solving urgent problems in digitalization, biologization and development of organic livestock and crop production, improvement of environmental safety and product quality. The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Kaliningrad State Technical University (KSTU, Kaliningrad, Russia).
The book will be useful to researchers of interdisciplinary issues of digitalization and biologization, robotization and organization of agricultural production, as well as farmers and commercial companies, which introduce new technologies in crop production and animal husbandry. The book also covers a range of issues related to scientific training of graduate students in the areas of "Mechatronics and robotics", "Management in technical systems", "Technologies, machines and equipment for the agro-industrial complex", "Plant breeding, seed production and biotechnology", "Horticulture, vegetable growing, viticulture and medicinal crops", "Breeding, selection, genetics and biotechnology of animals", "Private animal husbandry, feeding, technologies of feed preparation and production of livestock products", "Fisheries, aquaculture and industrial fisheries", "Regional and sectoral economics".

Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPС RAS). He is a specialist in the field of automated control systems, artificial intelligence technologies, and human-machine interaction. He is the founder of a new scientific field: multimodal interaction and control of socio-cyberphysical and robotic systems based on natural communication methods and proactive interactive automation tools for information, physical, and energy channels. His research focuses on the implementation of heterogeneous robots in agriculture. He is a member of Scientific Boards of Departments of the Russian academy of sciences "Scientific Foundations of Information Technologies and Automation", “Robotics and Mechatronics”, “Theory and control processes”, “Mechanical engineering”, the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control, Co-Chairman of International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR). He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal “Informatics and Automation”.

Ass. Prof. Oksana Ogij is First Vice-rector of the Kaliningrad state technical university. Her research focuses on the human resource management, human resources ecosystem of the fishing industry, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of more than 50 scientific papers, including 2 monographs, takes an active part in the work of scientific societies, is a member of the International Academy of Environmental and Security Sciences, has been repeatedly rewarded with commendations, awarded with diplomas, received the gratitude of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, a Certificate of Honor from the Legislative Collections of the Kamchatka Territory.

Ass. Prof. Vladimir Surovtsev is a leading researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development – structural division of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in the field of research on the economics of agricultural industries, the economics of innovation in the agro-industrial complex, including the economics of digital transformation of agricultural production. Recommendations and models have been developed to assess the economic efficiency of the development of innovative technologies, automation and robotization of production processes in dairy farming, the use of biological products in feed production and cow feeding. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Dairy and Beef Cattle Farming.