Agriculture and New Technologies: A Basic Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

In modern society, the importance of agriculture is reduced in comparison to the past. In spite of it, agriculture is not of little importance in modern society. It is a key sector for economic development, particularly in less developed countries. Secondly, agriculture is linked to the environmental question as a climate change agent.

Today technological development could be the way to develop agriculture and improve sustainability.

The paper is structured as follows. The first paragraph reconstructs very shortly the relationship between technology and agriculture from the historical point of view.

The second paragraph is devoted to today’s new technologies for agriculture, considering the problems in implementing them.

The third paragraph reports which are the digital technologies most frequently used in agriculture and the measures that governments should implement to improve the sector.