Digital Transformation In Agriculture: The Role Of Precision Farming Technologies

Abstract

In the past few years, farmers have been offered a list of digital technologies that are meant to solve all the existing problems. Precision farming technologies are supposed to create a new type of farmer: precise, fast, data-based, and needing smaller plots for greater yields. The effects are known, but the path towards these positive outcomes remains relatively blurred. The question remains if the current specificity of the market will continue, or if the gap will increase because the path of the process does not correspond only to the technological point of view. The goals of this paper are to analyze the current stage of digital proliferation in agriculture and to determine if there is a specific standard in Central and Eastern European agriculture. The data used in the research was gathered from different sources and came from field experience. This study proves the general idea of the multi-use of precision farming technologies in Central and Eastern Europe, but it also underlines some specific new patterns by analyzing some examples from the region.