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IP/B/AGRI/IC/2018-023
PE 629.192 March 2019 The emergence of
“farm-tech revolution”
in the EU

A study commissioned by the Committee

for Agriculture and Rural Development
 MAIN
CONCLUSIONS
New technologies at each stage of the value chain
can reduce overall costs when inputs are
optimised and better managed and can boost
outputs. Enhanced decision-making possibilities
due to new technologies not only provide
improvements in the efficiency of the entire supply
chain, but alleviate important societal issues
related to, for instance, food security concerns.
Modernization of the CAP via digital innovations
can increase transparency in governance, make it
fairer and less likely to foster disputes. New
technologies can be used to modernise and
facilitate the CAP at different levels, for instance to:
- provide new monitoring and control procedures:
to shift from the traditional control of farmers’
claims based on sampling, to a continuous and full
monitoring system which checks compliance to
requirements that can be verified;
- provide new methods of payment: to ensure CAP
payments go through a sound and transparent
monitoring system, built on reliable and robust
environmental indicators;
- provide a decision-making support tool to
farmers (Farm Sustainability Tool): to assist farmers
to comply with the new CAP Farm Sustainability
Tool to optimise their use of nutrients, and
therefore their income, while protecting water
quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
ABSTRACT FOCUS ON
The study presents a state-of-the-art Farmers are facing challenges related to
overview on digital agriculture, the a growing demand for production in
impacts of new technologies on the combination with shifts in power
agri-food value chains and opportunities relationships and new business models,
for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). unstable yields due to climate
Using case studies and examples the conditions and changing customer
study demonstrates the needs for further needs. To overcome these challenges,
deployment of innovation in the the agri-food sector can be more
agriculture sector, fostering research and enthusiastic about the introduction of
investments in digital agriculture and new technologies.
integrating Agri-tech into the policy
agenda.
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