Practical use of Agriculture 4.0 digital technologies to meet the EU's strategic goals in Czech agriculture

Karel KubataAlexander GalbaEdita ŠilerováVladimír OčenášekPetr Cihelka

DOI 10.7160/aol.2024.160205
No 2/2024, June
pp. 63-74

Kubata, K., Galba, A., Šilerová, E., Očenášek, V. and Cihelka, P. (2024) "Practical use of Agriculture 4.0 Digital Technologies to Meet the EU's Strategic Goals in Czech Agriculture", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 63-74. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2024.160205.

Abstract

The implementation of precision technology procedures is declared in EU documents, including the implementation of these technologies in all areas of production, production, trade, including all areas of everyday life of the population. The article deals with the use of IT technologies in activities dealing with land management: i.e. crop production including landscape maintenance. In this context, precision technologies are used in agriculture, crop and livestock production, horticulture, forestry and comprehensive maintenance of the agricultural landscape. With remote sensing, all land areas are monitored, data is stored, and the whole process takes place continuously. The data is displayed in information maps that perfectly map the properties of the monitored area. Today, the development of the information society and specialized internet services of the state administration would not be possible without precise technologies and information portals. These are portals for the public needs of citizens or a specific professional community, and these must be user-friendly, clear, intuitive, visually interesting, trustworthy and complete in content. The article deals with a detailed analysis of the Czech Farmer's Portal from multiple angles, including state-of-the-art tools such as the AMS system (AMS, 2023). This is a new way of monitoring agricultural areas using a satellite system. On the basis of the analysed services, deficiencies are identified and suggestions for improvement are presented.

Keywords

SZIF, LPIS, single application, web application optimization, AMS system.

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