Istomin D.A., Ivanov A.S.

Assessment of promising areas of digital livestock farming in the framework of "Agriculture 4.0"

Digital innovation is increasingly being promoted as a practice that allows producers to tackle the challenges of reducing the impact of livestock on greenhouse gas emissions, meeting the growing needs of the population, and the welfare of animals and the environment. Today, digital technologies are being implemented in the livestock sector in different ways: automation technologies are popular among farmers, and not technologies for collecting or processing data for decision-making. There is a risk that, with a focus on the future, technology development will focus on livestock in corporate, large-scale industrial production and therefore will not address the barriers to integrated digital solutions development and access for smallholder farmers. If so, Agriculture 4.0 will play a more limited role in making food systems sustainable. Agriculture 4.0 developers must focus not only on developing the latest sensor or device, but on a more holistic perspective, including consideration of regulatory requirements, business model, recommendations and capacity development, to ensure implementation and ensure the sharing of the benefits of Agriculture 4.0 for all participants in the agricultural sector.

Keywords: LIVESTOCK, DIGITAL AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE 4.0