Agriculture, Volume 14, Issue 11

Pig manure, as an organic fertilizer, can significantly affect soil nutrient content, pH, and electrical conductivity. Moreover, the accumulation of heavy metals in pig manure and their potential ecological risks are also important concerns in soil m...

Due to the complex growth positions of dragon fruit and the difficulty in robotic picking, this paper proposes a six degrees of freedom dragon fruit picking robot and investigates the manipulator’s motion characteristics to address the adaptive...

The ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor is well known for transmitting a number of viruses that can contribute to the collapse of honeybee colonies. To date, the many control measures put in place to limit the spread of V. destructor have yielded no...

The paper investigates for the first time the impact of a novel sprayable, biodegradable polyester-urethane-urea (PEUU) mulch on the microbial community composition of an agricultural soil. In this study changes to the composition of the soil microbi...

This study explores how age and seasonal changes impact semen characteristics and reproductive behavior in Carpatina breed bucks. Males were divided into three age groups: young (14–23 months; L14), adult (3–4 years; L34), and older (5&nd...

Biogas production offers an alternate method for managing agricultural waste and contributes to sustainable renewable energy generation. Anaerobic digestion (AD) enables the transformation of organic waste, including agricultural substrates, into bio...

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L, flora of China) is an essential oil crop in China, but its growth and development are affected by climate change. To cope with the impacts of climate change on sesame cultivation, we used the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) model...

Soil residual herbicides are often applied at cover crop termination to extend the period of weed control and reduce the selection pressure for herbicide resistance. Previous studies indicate that one of the benefits of cover crop use is the increase...

Traditional disease severity monitoring is subjective and inefficient. This study employs a Parrot multispectral sensor mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to apply machine learning algorithms, such as random forest, for categorizing defoliat...

This systematic review aims to comprehensively examine publications that compared conventional and organic agriculture in the Czech Republic. Agriculture in the Czech Republic is unique because of considerable variability in natural and climatic cond...