Agrotecnologica Do Tocantins (AGROTINS): Análise Da Disseminação Das Tecnologias De Informação E Comunicação (TICs) Na Agropecuária

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs), commonly known as Digital Agriculture or Agro 4.0 through public policies, present the data that infer the degree of use by farmers and demonstrate its importance to increase sustainable productivity in agriculture and cattle ranching in Tocantins in COVID-19 period. The research was developed through descriptive, bibliographical, and documental means with a quanti-qualitative approach carried out by organs and private companies in the agricultural and cattle-raising segment. The main objective is to demonstrate the importance of ICT in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, supported from the standpoint of production theory, in the increase of sustainable productivity in agriculture and cattle-raising in a period of recession, and to compare the results with Neoschumpeterian theoreticians. The results showed that public policies directed to digital agriculture are still being formulated, that there is a big difference between the understanding about the importance of ICTs for agriculture and cattle ranching in Tocantins and that the impact of the pandemic was greater for family farming.