What is stopping Agriculture 4.0?---Examples from China

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution emerged, Agriculture 4.0 started a new page of agriculture. Thanks to the rapid development of advanced and accurate technologies, agriculture provides the huge potential to realize sustainable agriculture from the perspectives of economics, society, and the environment. However, the transformation to Agriculture 4.0 is still slow. In our research, we explored the challenges stopping the development of Agriculture 4.0 through content analysis and secondary research. It is concluded and proved by other scholars that the main factors stopping Agriculture 4.0 are the weak awareness of farmers, lack of digital agriculture experts and institutions, unclear digital agriculture education and training, and the absence of policies and laws. In the end, we also put forward some suggestions to tackle these challenges, such as improving infrastructure investment and competency-building, taking care of the “future farmers”, strengthening data ownership and privacy, and enhancing the role of government in digital agriculture development.