Toward crop variety recommender systems

Choosing an optimal crop variety to plant is one of the most important decisions faced by farmers. Nowadays, recommender systems are almost ubiquitous in several human activities, except in agriculture, and more deeply absent in crop variety decision‐making. This commentary presents the potential applications of crop variety recommender systems, describing the elements required for their implementation and adoption, and proposing new research areas to address the major research gaps. This work aims to motivate the scientific community at the intersection of agriculture, environmental science, data science, digital technologies, and computer science to work toward the development and application of recommender systems to support crop variety decision‐making.