In the era of digital economy,"carbon peak"and"carbon neutrality"in the agricultural field are important issues that need to be addressed during the economic development stage.Whether the digital economy plays a role in agricultural carbon emission reduction is an urgent issue to be explored.This article uses panel data from 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2021 to empirically test the impact of digital economy development on agricultural carbon emissions,and analyzes the acting path.The research has found that the development of the digital economy has a remarkable inhibiting effect on agricultural carbon emissions,and the above-mentioned conclusion is still true after robust tests.The results of the acting path test show that the green technological innovation effect and the industrial structure enhancement effect are two feasible paths to exert the effect of"digital carbon reduction".