Innovative approaches to agricultural development

Abstract

Contemporary approaches and adoption of innovations in agriculture are very important drivers of productivity growth and achieving sustainable development of agricultural sector. At the same time, numerous internal and external factors additionally impose the need to introduce innovative approaches to agricultural production, which requires development models based on knowledge, quality standards, information and communication technologies, and other innovations acceptable in economic, environmental and wider social context. In this paper, a detailed analysis of the most current contemporary approaches and innovations in the development of agriculture is performed, in order to indicate which of these are the most common and successful in the world and why is it so. The results of the research indicate which contemporary approaches and innovations are most potentiated in agricultural practice, globally, with an accompanying analysis that explains the advantages and disadvantages of all these approaches and innovations in this area.