Agriculture, Volume 15, Issue 10

The online dynamic collection of irrigation and plant physiological information is crucial for the precise irrigation management of nutrient solutions and efficient crop cultivation in vegetable soilless substrate cultivation facilities. In this stud...

The red-belted clearwing moth Synanthedon myophaeformis is a deleterious pest of apple orchards, wherein the larvae bore tree bark, resulting in reduced fitness and ultimately death. The main control strategies of this pest still rely on the use of p...

Accurate detection of surface defects on passion fruits is crucial for maintaining market competitiveness. Numerous small defects present significant challenges for manual inspection. Recently, deep learning (DL) has been widely applied to object det...

Banana inflorescences are usually discarded, but there has been interest in managing this by-product to turn it into a product with added value. Herein, the inflorescences of seven cultivars were processed into flour and evaluated for their physicoch...

As a dominant ecological stress factor of climate change, soil drought has become a key challenge restricting food security. Based on soil moisture data, this paper uses the cumulative anomaly method, coefficient of variation, Sen + Mann–Kendal...

Balancing food security with fertilizer-driven climate impacts remains critical in intensive agriculture. While organic–inorganic substitution enhances soil fertility, its effects on nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO) emissions remain un...

As the European Union advances its bioeconomy strategy, the agricultural sector emerges as a key domain requiring targeted upskilling in digital and entrepreneurial competencies. This study examines how agricultural professionals perceive the importa...

The automatic flushing valve (AFV) enables automatic flushing of drip irrigation systems, improving their anti-clogging performance. This study focuses on a subsurface drip irrigation system (SDI) for alfalfa, selecting T20 and T70 AFVs (with designe...

Food security is a fundamental issue that has long been of great concern, and cultivated land resources are the core elements of food security. In recent years, the problem of “non-agriculturalization” and “non-grain” conversi...

Accurate object detection is a fundamental component of autonomous apple-picking systems. In response to the insufficient recognition performance and poor generalization capacity of existing detection algorithms under unstructured orchard scenarios,...