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Systematic Review of Agriculture and Era 4.0: The Most Relevant Insights

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Trends of the Agricultural Sector in Era 4.0

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Agriculture is interrelated with other economic sectors both upstream and downstream, and in this way, agricultural activities follow the tendencies which are often verified in their surrounding dynamics. In these frameworks, it is presumed that farming activities influence the food sector, as well as the fact that the food chains and the evolution of industry impact upon the dynamics in the agricultural sector. From this perspective, it is important to analyse the interrelationships between agriculture and the other sectors in Era 4.0. Considering these contexts, the main objective of this research is to highlight the main insights from the literature concerning Agriculture 4.0 and the interrelationships between agriculture with Food 4.0 and Industry 4.0. For this purpose, a systematic review based on bibliometric analysis was carried out, considering documents from the Scopus database. The results obtained show that the contributions from Era 4.0 for the farming sector are diverse, from the IoT (Internet of Things) to robotics, and may support efficiency improvements (crucial towards improving sustainability) in the sector.

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This work is funded by National Funds through the FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project Refa UIDB/00681/2020. Furthermore we would like to thank the CERNAS Research Centre and the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu for their support.

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Martinho, V.J.P.D. (2022). Systematic Review of Agriculture and Era 4.0: The Most Relevant Insights. In: Trends of the Agricultural Sector in Era 4.0. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98959-0_2

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