In the face of extreme events and record heat, the digitalization of the countryside is becoming increasingly necessary to safeguard crops from the effects of climate change. Eight out of ten farms are prepared to invest in technologies that can reduce water, energy, and fertilizer consumption, monitor crop health with data on weather forecasts and temperatures, develop more resistant varieties, and monitor soil fertility and water stress. Coldiretti, Italy's largest agricultural association, provided this analysis. Currently, agricultural areas using modern instruments encompass more than 1 million hectares, accounting for 9.5% of the total. This trend, however, requires improvements in the digital coverage of rural areas. Even today, the digital divide remains one of the primary impediments to the digital transformation of the sector, beginning with the absence of fiber optic connections to farms. Fiber optics is an important infrastructure for rural digitization because it provides fast, robust, and low-latency connections, which are required for many modern technologies. However, Coldiretti revealed that in rural areas of Italy, it reaches just 44.5% of families, significantly lower than the European average.