A Bibliometric Analysis on Agriculture 4.0

Abstract

The agriculture industry is facing several challenges like ever boostingfood demand due to increasing population, lack of natural resources, seasonal variation reduced productivity, food waste, poverty, complex supply chain, and huge market inefficiencies. To make agriculture sustainable and more productive, we need to adapt to the fourth industrial revolutionin the agriculture sector. Agriculture is at the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution because it uses advanced technologies such as the internet of things, 3D printing, blockchain technology, automation, big data analysis in the farming sector, and agriculture operations. Agriculture 4.0 connects the real and virtual world for better productivity and efficiency. This paper aims to find out the researches conducted in the agriculture sector in convergence with the industrial revolution 4.0 with the help of bibliometric analysis. It is a statistical method, which provides details about leading authors, journals, authors’ affiliations, authors’ citations, leading countries, co-authorship, and co-occurrences of keywords in a particular research area to find out the future scope and global research trend. Four hundred fifty-six (456) documents between 2011-2019 from the Scopus database have been considered for the analysis after refinement. The VOSviewer software tool is used to generate a bibliographic map like co-authorship,  co-occurrences of the keyword, etc. This study is helpful for researchers, academia, and industries.