Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an information system that provides for collection, processing, storage, transmission, cartographic and visual presentation of information consistent with spatial. The use of the GIS in agriculture, including in the following directions, is quite wide:

• Identification of agricultural land by using satellite imagery and orthophoto, as well as classification of planting areas by vegetation;
• Identification of plant species, monitoring of vegetation stages, crop forecasting, detection of plant diseases and their distribution by using satellite imagery;
• Determination of soil moisture, degree of salination, irrigation condition by using satellite imagery;
• Inventory of winter and summer pastures, estimate of grassland and detection of biomass by using satellite imagery

The “AgroGIS” geodatabase of the Ministry of Agriculture is managed by Agricultural Economics Research Center. The structure of this database consists of the following divisions:

• Agricultural lands - results of photo interpretation (in factuse) on orthophoto maps;
• Other lands - spatial and non-spatial land data;
• Hydrography - spatial and non-spatial data for all water basins;
• Land which was changed category - spatial and non-spatial data of land;
• Crops - spatial and non-spatial data on perennial plantations and greenhouses;
• Administrative boundaries - lands of economic and administrative districts (units), administrative and territorial units and municipalities; 
• Information about farms - spatial and non-spatial information about land, buildings and other structures of subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Agriculture;
• Orthophoto maps and digital elevation model;
• Non-spatial data - statistical data.