From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0: Current Status, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges
Nanjing Agricultural University · Shanghai Advanced Research Institute · +5 more institutions
Abstract
The three previous industrial revolutions profoundly transformed agriculture industry from indigenous farming to mechanized farming and recent precision agriculture. Industrial farming paradigm greatly improves productivity, but a number of challenges have gradually emerged, which have exacerbated in recent years. Industry 4.0 is expected to reshape the agriculture industry once again and promote the fourth agricultural revolution. In this article, first, we review the current status of industrial agriculture along with lessons learned from industrialized agricultural production patterns, industrialized agricultural production processes, and the industrialized agri-food supply chain. Furthermore, five emerging…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 85.55
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 108
Authors
5- YLYe LiuCorresponding
Nanjing Agricultural University
- XMXiaoyuan Ma
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- LSLei Shu
Nanjing Agricultural University
- GPGerhard P. Hancke
City University of Hong Kong
- AMAdnan M. Abu‐Mahfouz
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, University of Johannesburg
Topics & keywords
- Agriculture
- Business
- Productivity
- Big data
- Agricultural productivity
- Industry 4.0
- Industrial Revolution
- Analytics
- Zero hunger