Naslov
Knowledge on digital agriculture among the owners of family farms in Osijek-Baranja county

Autori
Domazetović, Dinko ; Lončarić, Ružica ; Jelić Milković, Sanja ; Lončarić, Zdenko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
1st International Symposium on Digital Technologies in Agriculture / Lončarić, Zdenko ; Jović, Jurica - Osijek : Fakultet agrobiotehničkih znanosti Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, 2022, 47-47

ISBN
978-953-8421-03-7

Skup
1st International Symposium on Digital Technologies in Agriculture

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 06.12.2022. - 08.12.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
family farms, digital technologies, knowledge, education

Sažetak
The main aim of the proposed research will be to determine the level of current knowledge and awareness about recent trends and applications in digital agriculture among the owners of family farms in Osijek-Baranja County. Through this study, it will be determined how much knowledge farmers currently have in the field of digital agriculture and more importantly how willing are they to implement new technologies in their daily agricultural activities. The online and face to face survey was conducted among 43 family farmers in Osijek-Baranja County during summer 2022. One part of the study will determine which aspects of digital agriculture are already in use among the owners of family farms and which are the most common obstacles and problems they are facing in relation to the broad implementation of digital agriculture. In survey participated mostly man (76, 7%), 42 years old in average, most of their income comes from agricultural activities (56%), 58% has some kind of college of faculty education, they have been engaged in agriculture for less than 10 years (44%) and have only 1 employee (69%). In survey participated farmers from almost all fields of agriculture from tourism, beekeeping, farming, eco- agriculture, cattle production, winemaking, and others. 56% of respondents were acquainted with the terms Precision agriculture, 67% with Digital agriculture, and 72% with Artificial intelligence. Applications already implemented in agricultural activities mostly are internet and communications (88%) and e-government (62%), applications for weather applications (46%) and market access applications (25%) but in the future they plan to adopt other applications (for fertilization, soil protection, e-accounting, precision agriculture, drones and other). Using Likert scale from 1 to 5, the main obstacles and limitations in digital agriculture for respondents are large investments for machinery and equipment (4, 0), lack of advisory service (3, 9) and lack of qualified and trained workforce (3, 9). The most important subjects for implementing digital technologies in agriculture are agronomists and extension services (average score on Likert scale 4, 2 for both) as well as educational and scientific institutions (4, 16). 63% of surveyed subjects advertise their business on social media, mostly on Facebook. Less favorable answers in survey are that 65% of producers don’t have a web page for their manufacturers and 77% didn’t use EU funds for digitalization. The conclusion from this survey is that Croatia has only started its introduction to digitalization, and there is a lot of space for progress and the introduction of new technologies. A positive push would be the creation of a countrywide strategy on which technologies should be implemented. Also, the involving agronomists would improve education, data collection, extension activities and supervising the implementation of digital technologies.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Poljoprivreda (agronomija), Biotehnologija, Ekonomija

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