CONTEXT

Agriculture 4.0 can drive the growth of the agricultural production chain in emerging countries like Brazil, which is known as one of the primary food and meat producers worldwide, by implementing a range of advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Machine Learning. However, the development of agriculture 4.0 in Brazil is a complex process, and more needs to be known about the real barriers that impact its adoption among the actors of the agricultural production chain. There need to be more empirical studies about the perception of Brazilian farmers regarding the barriers that may compromise the successful path of agriculture 4.0.

OBJECTIVE

This article aims to validate the barriers that difficult the development of agriculture 4.0 in the agricultural production chain of Southern Brazil.

METHODS

Twenty-five barriers were chosen for validation based on a Systematic Review of the existing Literature. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed using the statistical tests of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett. Validation was performed through the perception of farmers (n = 347) distributed among the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná. The data were collected from an online questionnaire that identified the importance of the barriers for the farmers in the sample.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS

The most frequent and important barriers mentioned by the farmers were: lack of infrastructure, lack of solutions accessible to farmers, need to foster R&D and innovative business models, age group risk, and lack of efficacy in the data on the rural environment. This information can contribute to constructing a framework that seeks to overcome these barriers, thus facilitating the expansion and dissemination of agriculture 4.0 in Brazil.

SIGNIFICANCE

This study found that there is an open discussion about the barriers of agriculture 4.0 in the agricultural production chain. It will be necessary to investigate further the most prominent barriers in this study, as these may have significant impacts on other barriers. New systemic research that seeks to deepen the conditions for implementing agriculture 4.0 must be developed.

中文翻译：

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农民对农业4.0实施障碍的认知

语境

农业 4.0 可以通过实施物联网 (IoT)、人工智能等一系列先进技术，推动巴西等新兴国家农业生产链的增长，巴西被称为全球主要食品和肉类生产国之一(AI)、区块链和机器学习。然而，巴西农业 4.0 的发展是一个复杂的过程，需要更多地了解影响其在农业生产链参与者之间采用的真正障碍。需要进行更多的实证研究，了解巴西农民对可能影响农业 4.0 成功之路的障碍的看法。

客观的

本文旨在验证巴西南部农业生产链中阻碍农业4.0发展的障碍。

方法

根据对现有文献的系统回顾，选择了 25 个障碍进行验证。使用Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin和Bartlett的统计检验进行验证性因素分析。验证是通过分布在南里奥格兰德州、圣卡塔琳娜州和巴拉那州的农民 ( n = 347 )的看法进行的。这些数据是从在线问卷中收集的，该问卷确定了障碍对样本中农民的重要性。

结果和结论

农民提到的最常见和最重要的障碍是：缺乏基础设施、农民无法获得解决方案、需要培育研发和创新商业模式、年龄组风险以及农村环境数据缺乏有效性。这些信息有助于构建旨在克服这些障碍的框架，从而促进农业 4.0 在巴西的扩展和传播。

意义

本研究发现，在农业生产链中存在着关于农业 4.0 壁垒的公开讨论。有必要进一步调查本研究中最突出的障碍，因为这些障碍可能对其他障碍产生重大影响。必须开展旨在深化实施农业 4.0 条件的新系统研究。