Opportunities and Barriers to the Development of Agriculture 4.0 in the Context of Low Carbon Agriculture in Poland

Abstract

Agriculture 4.0, as a vision of agricultural development, has great potential for limiting undesirable and harmful pollution of the natural environment resulting from agricultural activity. The multidimensional and cumulative nature of negative phenomena, mainly related to the chemization of agriculture, raises challenges, related to, among others, to the development of information and communication technologies. The aim of this paper is to provide knowledge about Agriculture 4.0 in Poland, including current opportunities and barriers to its development. The background for the presented issues is the development of a low carbon economy. In Poland, there are Information and communication technologies as well as robotics available, which can provide the basis for solving ecological problems in agricultural production. However, according to analyses, farmers constitute the largest social group in Poland without access to computers and the Internet.