Review article

https://doi.org/10.31803/tg-20210914162640

Smart Agriculture Development and Its Contribution to the Sustainable Digital Transformation of the Agri-Food Sector

Darko Lugonja orcid.org/0000-0002-4577-7206 ; Ministry of Agriculture, Department for Professional Support to the Development of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ul. grada Vukovara 78, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Mladen Jurišić orcid.org/0000-0002-8105-6983 ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Vladimira Preloga 1, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Ivan Plaščak orcid.org/0000-0001-8700-4773 ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Vladimira Preloga 1, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Ivana Zbukvić ; Ministry of Agriculture, Department for Professional Support to the Development of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ul. grada Vukovara 78, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Danijela Glavica-Tominić ; Ministry of Agriculture, Department for Professional Support to the Development of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ul. grada Vukovara 78, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Krušelj ; Ministry of Agriculture, Department for Professional Support to the Development of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ul. grada Vukovara 78, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Dorijan Radočaj orcid.org/0000-0002-7151-7862 ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek, Vladimira Preloga 1, 31000 Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

This study analyses the importance of the connection between the development of smart agriculture and sustainable digital transformation (DT) of the agri-food sector. The sustainability of DT depends on a number of complex components, especially information and communication technologies (ICT), and economic systems. The increase in the number of studies in this area indicates a complex nature as well as interdependencies. Over the last few decades of innovation, ICT, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have significantly affected human activities in all aspects. This includes the rapidly changing and difficult-to-predict agricultural sector in the context of global development, indicating the need to address these challenges. The global trend of DT has included all sectors, opening space for the contribution of smart agriculture to sustainable DT, but also to find appropriate "tailor-made solutions" for every challenge we face.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence (AI); Digital Transformation (DT); Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Internet of Things (IoT); Smart Agriculture

Hrčak ID:

276159

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/276159

Publication date:

8.5.2022.

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