Digital transformation in fruit culture: a bibliographic analysis in the Web of Science base

Abstract

The effects of digital transformation have been promoting a revolution in rural production in Brazil in recent years. In this context, it is expected that such a transformation will be reflected in the performance and sustainability of agribusiness. This study proposes to evaluate how the scientific production on the subject of digital transformation, regarding fruit agribusiness, has grown in the period 2010-2021, through a systematic bibliographic survey carried out in the electronic database of the Web of Science. The research is characterized as quali-quanti, with an exploratory and descriptive approach. The results obtained with the tabulation of the data, point out, among other findings, that from the year 2017 onwards there is a continuous trend of growth in the number of publications related to the subject researched here. As for the scientific mapping under a longitudinal structure, communication between the Innovation and Fruit Growing clusters was observed between the years 2013 to 2017 and, later, the Fruit Growing and Digital Transformation clusters between the years 2017 and 2021. These results prove the rise of the theme of digital transformation as an innovative mechanism for the fruit-growing agribusiness business ecosystem.

Keywords:
digital agriculture; innovation; agribusiness; Industry 4.0; technology