Agriculture 4.0: the theoretical concept and its practical implementation

Abstract

The paper discusses the main aspects of the formation and development of the “Agriculture 4.0”; its basic directions of the implementation are the active use of various digital technologies to be founded for the introduction of qualitatively new approaches to organizing the activities of the agricultural enterprises. Moreover, the formation of the digital platforms is considered as one of such approaches improving economic organizational and managerial relations that take place in the economic activity process of the agricultural enterprises. The conducted analysis made it possible to give the practical implementation of the ideas developed in the “Agriculture 4.0” concept. It is capable of both significantly improving efficiency of the agricultural production and reducing the dependence of the agro ecosystems` functioning from natural factors as well as contribution to the ecologization of the agricultural production processes.