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Agriculture, Volume 15, Issue 3

February-1 2025 - 132 articles

Cover Story: Mediterranean agriculture faces the challenge of balancing crop productivity with environmental sustainability under water-scarce conditions. While carbon and water footprints are commonly used to assess agricultural impacts, the combined effect of sowing dates and irrigation regimes remains underexplored. In durum wheat continuous cropping systems, these practices impact not only yields but also greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption. This review examines how adjusting sowing dates and supplemental irrigation during flowering influences productivity and sustainability in durum wheat systems. Its focus is on their potential to mitigate environmental trade-offs, offering critical insights to optimize practices in traditional Mediterranean cropping systems. View this paper
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Articles (132)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,085 Views
23 Pages

Forewarned Is Forearmed: Documentation on the Invasion Risk of Asclepias speciosa in Greece and Europe

  • Nikos Krigas,
  • Catherine Dijon,
  • Ioulietta Samartza,
  • Dimitrios N. Avtzis,
  • Ioannis Anestis,
  • Elias Pipinis and
  • Zigmantas Gudžinskas

Biological invasions threaten biodiversity and agroecosystems, and early warning systems can minimise the spread of invasive alien species with limited resources. This study documents the presence of the alien plant Asclepias speciosa Torr., native t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,454 Views
19 Pages

Inversion and Fine Grading of Tidal Flat Soil Salinity Based on the CIWOABP Model

  • Jin Zhu,
  • Shuowen Yang,
  • Shuyan Li,
  • Nan Zhou,
  • Yi Shen,
  • Jincheng Xing,
  • Lixin Xu,
  • Zhichao Hong and
  • Yifei Yang

This study on soil salinity inversion in coastal tidal flats based on Sentinel-2 remote sensing imagery is significant for improving saline–alkali soils and advancing tidal flat agriculture. This study proposes an improved approach for soil sal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,034 Views
26 Pages

Understanding how breeders of local breeds view different social actors can be of great importance to the process of local breed conservation. The same goes for the motives in farming local breeds. However, there is little research that provides insi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,276 Views
21 Pages

Analysis of the Distribution Pattern of Asparagus in China Under Climate Change Based on a Parameter-Optimized MaxEnt Model

  • Qiliang Yang,
  • Chunwei Ji,
  • Na Li,
  • Haixia Lin,
  • Mengchun Li,
  • Haojie Li,
  • Saiji Heng and
  • Jiaping Liang

Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) has high health and nutritional values, but the lack of scientific and rational cultivation planning has resulted in a decline in asparagus quality and yield. Important soil, climatic, anthropogenic, and topograph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,843 Views
21 Pages

The Capacity of a Household Farming System with Women’s Decision and Action-Making Power: Rural Marginal Areas in Morocco

  • Veronique Alary,
  • Bruno Romagny,
  • Dina Najjar,
  • Mohammed Aderghal and
  • Jean-Yves Moisseron

Nowadays, women’s contribution to society through their social and human involvement at the household level in terms of education, care, and nutrition, as well as their added value to economic functioning, is increasingly recognized. However, m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,309 Views
23 Pages

Improvements in Tolerance to Heat Stress in Rice via Molecular Mechanisms and Rice Varieties

  • He Liu,
  • Yiting Wei,
  • Saisai Xia,
  • Wei Xie,
  • Deyong Ren and
  • Yuchun Rao

Global warming affects crop growth and development, threatening food security. As one of the essential food crops, rice is severely affected by high temperature stress, which compromises both its yield and quality. Therefore, gaining a deep understan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
20 Pages

Early-Maturity Wheat as a Highly Valuable Feed Raw Material with Prebiotic Activity

  • Besarion Meskhi,
  • Viktor Pakhomov,
  • Dmitry Rudoy,
  • Tatyana Maltseva,
  • Anastasiya Olshevskaya and
  • Maria Mazanko

This work is devoted to the study of the dynamics of changes in the composition of the heap of cereal crops during maturation and identifying the optimal stage at which the grain heap has a high feed value. We studied the grain heap of winter wheat o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,613 Views
19 Pages

Effects of Different Biomass Types on Pellet Qualities and Processing Energy Consumption

  • Yantao Yang,
  • Lei Song,
  • Yuanna Li,
  • Yilin Shen,
  • Mei Yang,
  • Yunbo Wang,
  • Hesheng Zheng,
  • Wei Qi and
  • Tingzhou Lei

This work conducts a single-factor experiment to study the effects of biomass types on the relax density, volume expansion, durability, hydrophobicity, and processing energy consumption. We analyze the differences in the quality of the pellets, and o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,711 Views
28 Pages

The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is an innovative numerical computational approach. This method is employed to study and resolve the motion patterns of particles within discrete systems, contact mechanics properties, mechanisms of separation process...

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Agriculture - ISSN 2077-0472