2026 May-2 - 114 articles
Accurate tomato maturity detection is critical for optimizing key agricultural operations in precision agriculture, including harvesting, grading, and quality control. Despite advances in deep learning and machine vision, reliable detection in real-w...
Optimizing fertilizer management is crucial for increasing crop yields while reducing environmental impact. However, traditional methods rely on extensive field trials, which are costly and limit their scalability. To overcome these limitations, this...
Digital inclusive finance has grown rapidly in China in recent years, yet its effect on agricultural economic resilience remains debated. This study investigates the effect of digital inclusive finance on agricultural economic resilience, focusing on...
Plant leaf starch content is a critical indicator of metabolic status, yet traditional enzymatic methods are destructive, labor-intensive, and costly. This study proposes a novel non-destructive detection method using watermelon–pumpkin grafted...
Accurate identification of arable land, as the foundation of the high-standard farmland construction, impacts the crop layout, accurate management of water and fertilizers, and intelligent control. Due to the 10-m resolution limitation of Sentinel-2...
The yield of highland barley is not only related to the food security of Tibet but also to the social stability and development in the frontier region. This study revealed the spatiotemporal distribution of highland barley yield potential using the D...
This study proposes an attitude stabilization method based on an improved adaptive Kalman filter (AKF). The aim is to address attitude fluctuations and rollover risks in rail-based agricultural transport platforms on hilly terrain caused by slope cha...
Structural and functional soil degradation under conventional tillage has reached a critical point, requiring a shift towards conservation practices to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. This study evaluated the multi-year effects (2021...
The soil of Siraitia grosvenorii (LHG) farmland often suffers from acidification, compaction, and declining organic matter content. As biochar helps improve soil quality and enhance soil carbon sequestration capacity, an increasing number of studies...
Climate change, depleting fossil fuel reserves, and instability in petroleum prices are driving developing economies to explore cost-effective, efficient, and sustainable energy sources such as hydropower. However, there is an ongoing debate regardin...
Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) is increasingly used as a rapid and cost-effective technique for soil analysis; however, its comparability with laboratory-based methods remains uncertain. This study aimed to evaluate the applicability of pXRF for...
Soil moisture content (SMC) is a key variable in hydrology, irrigation, and land-atmosphere interactions, yet continuous monitoring remains constrained by sensor limitations and site heterogeneity. This study evaluated Bayesian Additive Regression Tr...
As Agricultural Heritage Systems (AHS) shift from recognition toward dynamic conservation and revitalization, understanding how visitors perceive heritage values is essential for improving interpretation and management. Guided by landsenses ecology,...
The rapid digitalisation of the agri-food sector has generated unprecedented volumes of farm and value chain data, but also highly fragmented data ecosystems and asymmetric power relations between farmers, technology providers, and public authorities...
Ensuring global food security is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and meat production is a critical source for protein; however, there are many critical issues facing the industry. This study focused on consumer perceptions of four key...
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most destructive viral diseases causing severe yield losses in tomato production worldwide. This study investigated the effects of TYLCV infection on plant growth, photosynthetic physiological respo...
Albic soils are a typical problematic soil type distributed worldwide. These soils are characterized by a thin humus layer, low organic matter content, nutrient insufficiency, and weak microbial activity. Therefore, microbial-based approaches hold gr...
Late spring frost poses a serious threat to orchard production, especially in mountainous orchards where timely frost monitoring and adaptive protection are difficult to implement. To address this problem, this study developed an intelligent smoke-ba...
Glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine] is the most widely used herbicide worldwide, and its environmental persistence has prompted increasing interest in microbial processes that may contribute to its dissipation. This study evaluated a collection o...
High-precision plant phenotyping requires efficient 3D reconstruction methods with high geometric quality. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a promising approach for real-time 3D reconstruction, achieving impressive visual quality....
Sweet cherry cracking severely impairs its commercial value and causes huge economic losses, and the accurate real-time detection of fine cracking defects remains a challenging small-target detection task. Traditional manual sorting and conventional...
Accurate and actionable crop disease diagnosis requires not only visual recognition of disease symptoms but also the ability to generate grounded reports that integrate symptom interpretation with agronomic knowledge. Existing image-based plant disea...
Accurate parcel-level crop field information is essential for precision agriculture, field management, and crop monitoring based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery. However, it remains difficult to achieve both reliable crop-type recognition an...
This paper conducts numerical simulations of nozzles with different structural parameters based on fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics and jet theory. The structural parameters of the nozzles were optimised by analysing flow field character...
The primary objective of this study was to present and assess the effects of direct payments and other subsidies targeted at dairy farms under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) guidelines implemented in 2014–2023 on their financia...
Weed segmentation is a fundamental task in precision agriculture, essential for targeted intervention and sustainable farming. However, achieving accurate segmentation remains challenging due to the high visual similarity between weeds and crops, as...
Agriculture, as a production sector, is exposed to external shocks. The instability of agricultural markets, changes in prices of inputs, dropping crop prices, or changes in climate patterns put their economic resilience to the test. Agroecological d...
Seed melon pulping is a critical process in the full utilization of seed melon. However, controlling the performance during the pulping process presents several challenges, particularly the unclear relationship between pulping performance and process...
Early and non-destructive identification of fungal contamination in cereals is essential to support post-harvest management, reduce economic losses, and mitigate food safety risks along the wheat supply chain. Among filamentous fungi, Alternaria spp....
Accurate discrete element method (DEM) simulations are essential for elucidating the precision seeding mechanisms and collision damage characteristics of cassava seed stem (CSS); however, such simulations are often limited by a lack of precise contac...
As a key component of sugarcane harvesting machinery, the spiral sugarcane lifter (SSL) enhances harvesting quality by lifting lodged sugarcane (LSC) into a posture suitable for stalk-base cutting and feeding. To improve the SSL’s lifting perfo...
This study investigates consumer knowledge, perceptions, and purchasing behaviors regarding products with geographical indications and certifications in the Campania region. Traditional Agri-Food Product (PAT) is the regional label used in Italy to i...
Rapid urbanization and stringent ecological protection policies in China have reshaped spatial competition among urban, agricultural, and ecological spaces. However, existing studies often overlook how this competition evolves across different slope...
Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation is essential for the reliable operation and energy management of electric agricultural machinery, particularly electric tractors operating under complex field conditions. This study aims to improve SOC estima...
In recent years, the frequency, damage and impact scope of extreme weather events have increased and expanded significantly. Based on the official secondary panel data of 26 provinces in China from 2006 to 2022, this paper explores the impact of extr...
Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) poses a major threat to global tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) production, as it can overcome conventional resistance genes that are effective against tobamoviruses. In this study, a multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 system...
Intensive agricultural production contributes significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for between 10 and 12% of global anthropogenic emissions, at a time when the agricultural sector is facing increasing pressure to adapt to ever-...
The temperature management models for solar greenhouses exhibit strong regional dependency. Their application in non-target environments often faces significant limitations, frequently resulting in severe temperature control deviations. To address th...
Layered saline soils containing weakly permeable interlayers exhibit restricted infiltration, surface salt accumulation, and limited deep salt discharge. This study investigated how weakly permeable interlayer thickness, hydraulic-parameter scenario,...
The poultry sector is one of the most dynamic segments of global livestock production, being essential for ensuring food security due to its high feed conversion efficiency and the accessibility of the resulting products [...]
Microalgae-based feeds are increasingly considered sustainable ingredients for animal nutrition, although their impact on skeletal muscle metabolism remains poorly understood. This study investigated the metabolic changes in piglet muscle in response...
This study conducted a comprehensive comparative assessment of the effects of site-specific tillage (SST) and uniform-depth tillage (UDT) on soil physical properties, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. The aim was to determine whether using differen...
Brassica napus L. is a globally important crop and its productivity is constrained by multiple abiotic stresses (salinity, drought, and heat). Calcineurin B-like proteins (CBLs) act as calcium sensors and play key roles in regulating ion homeostasis...
Biological invasions and environmental pollution are the two primary threats facing contemporary agricultural ecosystems, and their interaction exacerbates agroecological risks and undermines agricultural sustainability. This study was conducted to s...
Emerging technologies offer significant opportunities for sustainable rural development; however, their applications have not been systematically mapped across all dimensions of sustainability. This scoping review aims to identify, classify, and synt...
With the continuous growth of global population and increasing pressure on food security, the transformation toward precise and intelligent agricultural production has become an inevitable trend. In this context, accurate identification of field weed...
Moisture, salinity and aeration in saline–alkali soil are three critical factors affecting the biotic and abiotic environment. A three-factorial experiment including two tillage measures (ridge and flat tillage, denoted as R and F, respectively...
Although AI systems are increasingly being used as strategic tools in the agri-food sector, empirical evidence regarding their use and integration into wine marketing by wineries has been limited to date. The reasons for this delay may lie in various...
Honey bees are constantly exposed to various environmental threats, among which pesticide pollution, including fungicides, is one of the most serious. The bees were 3 days old when they received the experimental solution. This study aimed to evaluate...
Strengthening the carbon sequestration function of agriculture and reducing carbon emissions during production are critical for enhancing the carbon neutrality capacity of agricultural systems. This study focuses on Lanzhou City in the arid northwest...
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