Plant- and Whey-Based Sustainable Technology: Development Potential

Introduction. According to the Lighthouse research company, energy consumption in Russian industry exceeds the level of similar enterprises in other countries by 40–220%. In this regard, the urgent task is to find ways to improve the technological level of production in the country. The article features multi-assortment low-tonnage complex food technological in agriculture. Study objects and methods. Industrial agro-complexes that implement agricultural production technologies, storage, and processing technologies can solve the problem of food security in Russia. The research focused on food technology of open-type system complexes. To design such complexes, one has to pay attention to the entire production chain, from production of raw materials with programmed quality indicators to finished products that meet particular requirements. Results and discussion. The study summarized various data on the conditions of self-organization of system technological complexes and their main characteristics, e.g. openness, nonlinearity, instability, etc. The article describes the principles that underlie such complexes in agrifood industry, as well as the dialectic character of the synergy of several technologies united into one complex. The authors believe that agricultural industrialization is inevitable as industrial agro-complexes implement a new stage of the innovation revolution in agriculture. Therefore, priorities in agricultural development should be based on forecasts that rely on the current data and take into account the projection horizon. Conclusion. Research organizations and universities should implement complex technological systems.