EU Farms Reached 43% Internet Access in 2023 as Robotics Adoption Lagged at 7%
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Updated · European Commission · Jul 24
EU Farms Reached 43% Internet Access in 2023 as Robotics Adoption Lagged at 7%
2 articles · Updated · European Commission · Jul 24
Summary
43% of EU farms had internet access in 2023, while only 11% used farm management information systems and 7% deployed robotics, underscoring a wide digital gap across the bloc.
90%+ internet access was recorded in Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Czechia and Austria, while France led farm management systems adoption at about 60%.
18% of farms used some form of precision farming technology, but those holdings managed about 44% of the EU’s utilised agricultural area, showing uptake was concentrated in larger land shares.
75%+ of agricultural area was managed by precision-farming users in Luxembourg, Finland and Estonia, versus about 1% in Cyprus and 10%-15% in Greece and Romania.
If only a fraction of EU farms use precision technology, who truly controls the massive data harvested from 44% of Europe's agricultural land?
With 2023 data showing large farms dominating digital agriculture, are soaring tech costs quietly driving small European family farms into extinction?
Could the aggressive push for robotic farming and digital management be creating dangerous new cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Europe's food supply chain?