This editorial highlights the importance of establishing the journal Digital Intelligence in Agriculture and the typical applications of digital intelligence technology in agriculture such as planting industry, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery. Digital intelligence technology is driving global agriculture towards a new stage of smart agriculture characterized by "data-driven and intelligent decision-making". Its core is to achieve comprehensive empowerment of agricultural production, operation, management, and services through technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain. Smart technology aims to achieve multiple goals in agriculture, including cost reduction and efficiency improvement, quality improvement and income increase, resource conservation, and environmental sustainability. It is a key path to address future food security challenges and achieve agricultural modernization.
1 January 2025 in International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering