The development of agrarian education and science, the provision of human resources for the agro-industrial complex, the use of digital technologies in the educational process - these and other topical issues were discussed by the Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev with the rector of the Russian State Agricultural University named after K.A. Timiryazev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Vladimir Trukhachev. The topics of the meeting were also the results of the university's work last year and key tasks for the current one, which was announced by the President of Russian Federation as the Year of Science and Technology.