Abstract:

Shortage of resources per capita, manpower and environment pollution are critical scientific problems restraining agricultural modernization in China. As the deeper development stage of agricultural modernization, agricultural 4.0 could solve above three problems to realize precise and intelligent agricultural production more intensively, precisely and highly collaborative. This article started with the definition of agricultural 4.0, gave a brief description of the significant meaning of developing agriculture 4.0 and the main productive approach and features from agriculture 1.0 to 4.0. By analyzing productive condition, comprehensive requirement and difficult development issues, concluded the driving force, attraction and stress of agricultural generation evolution. Then explained the agricultural generation state distribution in China by agricultural generation proportion data, predicted generation development trend, pointed out the main driving technologies were big data, cloud computing, internet of things and artificial intelligent, and discussed the dynamic evolution characteristics. And obtained the results that the development process of agricultural 4.0 should closely related to agricultural requirements and the forecasting realization time is the year of 2070. The key research area of agricultural 4.0 were field planting, facility horticulture, livestock breeding and aquaculture, and the development strategy needed to suit local agricultural characteristics, follow the development rules of market and industry and focus on the reform of supply-side structure, completed the leader progression of agricultural 2.0, subject development of agricultural 3.0, then solving the main problems and realize the completely coverage of agricultural 4.0 in China finally.

Key words: Agricultural 4.0, Intelligent Agriculture, Generation Evolution, Key Technologies, Development, Strategy