2026 February-2 - 100 articles
Rural households’ risky financial asset selection (RFAS) is the foundation of households’ diversified asset allocation, which in turn helps expand their sources of property income. However, rural households rarely participate in risky fin...
Strip intercropping of maize and soybean is a key practice for improving land productivity and ensuring food and oil security in the hilly regions of the Loess Plateau. However, complex interspecific interactions generate highly heterogeneous canopy...
Time-varying disturbances arising from complex terrain and the lack of rigorous constraint-handling mechanisms significantly degrade the path-tracking performance of unmanned agricultural tractors (UATs). To address these issues, this paper proposes...
To address the lack of contact and breakage parameters in the discrete element method (DEM) simulation of potato seed cutting and sorting processes, this study took the ‘Atlantic’ potato seed as the research object and constructed a crush...
Accurate estimation of Body Carcass Fat (BCF) is essential for evaluating the physiological condition of ewes. Traditional assessment via Body Condition Score (BCS) through palpation is inaccurate and subjective. BCF can now be predicted more precise...
Seed viability fundamentally determines crop establishment, stress resilience, and yield stability in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), yet conventional assessment remains destructive, labor-intensive, and poorly scalable, while existing spectral learning...
The concentrations of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), organic matter (OM), and pH in soil are critical markers of fertility that influence crop growth and yield. Traditional wet-chemical analyses are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and...
Factors such as latitude, harvesting stage, and stubble height influence silage quality and harvesting decisions. We aimed to examine how harvest stage and stubble height affect the quality of whole-plant corn silage across different latitudes in Nor...
The Xinjiang wheat variety ‘Xindong 22’ was used as experimental material. Two soil moisture treatments were established: control (CK, 70–75% field capacity), drought (X1, 60–65%). The photosynthetic characteristics and resist...
To assess the impact of developmental stages on the postharvest quality of loquat, fruits at five distinct maturity phases (T1–T5) were systematically analyzed. This study employed a range of analytical techniques to conduct a comprehensive exa...
Soil-borne diseases and continuous cropping obstacles have become critical factors constraining sustainable agricultural development. Traditional pesticide application methods commonly suffer from uneven dosage distribution, significant chemical wast...
Agriculture serves as a critical foundation for livelihoods, food security, and sustainable development across the Sahara–Sahelian region. However, this vital sector faces mounting pressures from recurrent armed conflicts that systematically un...
To address the existing problems of frequent manual tray handling, poor continuity, and insufficient coordination in fully automatic transplanters, this study designed an integrated multi-layer tray-handling and dual-claw coordinated seedling pick-an...
The problem of agricultural environmental pollution is increasingly serious, and carbon emissions have become an important form of pollution that must be controlled. This study aims to explore the impact mechanism and heterogeneity of the digital eco...
The transition toward sustainable agriculture has increased interest in agroecological strategies (AS), which aim to reduce chemical inputs while enhancing environmental and socio-economic resilience. Despite growing policy support, adoption remains...
Wheat seed quality is a key factor of end-use performance and nutritional value, yet it is strongly influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. The present study evaluated the performance, stability, and genetic control of wheat seed qualit...
In tomato production, grafting enhances stress resistance, increases yield, and improves fruit quality. However, the selection of rootstock types limits its broader adoption. This study systematically evaluated the effects of grafting with 16 differe...
Laser radiation constitutes a promising technological advancement within the integrated weed management toolbox but is hindered by low energy use efficiency. This study investigated the efficiency of a pulsed blue diode laser for controlling small we...
Potato combine harvesters often face the challenge of balancing efficient potato–soil separation with minimizing tuber mechanical damage, which significantly affects harvest quality and economic returns. To address this issue, a dual-vibration...
Against the backdrop of global population and food security challenges, improving crop nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is essential for sustainable agriculture. Conventional nitrogen fertilizers suffer from low utilization rates and significant environ...
Digital village (DV) construction is the core driving force for high-quality development of the rural economy, and is a key strategy for achieving coordinated progress in urban development and rural revitalization. This study empirically analyzes the...
The bovine tongue is a complex and very important muscular and gustatory organ, yet a comprehensive understanding of its gustatory apparatus across diverse genetic resources remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multidimensional analysis of...
To address the key limitations of existing laser SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) navigation systems in orchards—insufficient safety margins, unsmooth trajectories, poor dynamic obstacle adaptability, and high energy consumption&mda...
Rice blast disease is one of the most contagious and destructive diseases affecting rice, posing a serious threat to global rice production and the agricultural economy. To enable accurate early detection under field conditions, this study proposes a...
Volunteer tourism is garnering growing attention across various fields, allowing tourists to both consume and co-produce tourism services. In agriculture, however, this remains underexplored, despite a worsening farm labour shortage due to ageing pop...
As a certification mark for agricultural product quality, the Green Food Trademark plays a pivotal role in ensuring food safety, promoting sustainable agricultural development, and enhancing market competitiveness. In China, farmers’ profession...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of age, sex, and dietary supplementation with resveratrol and defatted black soldier fly (Hermetiaconfirmedillucens) larvae meal (BSF) on the carcass traits, meat quality, and lipid profile in M...
This study aimed to compare different herbicide application schemes in winter wheat, including the application of glyphosate-containing herbicides in stubble and autumn or spring post-emergence application. Field experiments were conducted in 2022&nd...
This paper examines differences in agri-environmental climate and energy performance across the 27 European Union (EU) Member States. An integrated methodological framework was applied, combining the Shannon Entropy Index for objective weighting of i...
This review examines the potential impact of potato biofortification on boosting climate resilience and enhancing the nutritional content of potato tubers to combat hidden hunger. It also explores future possibilities for biofortified potatoes as a f...
Accurate and timely mapping of paddy rice is essential for agricultural management, food security, and climate-resilient policy. However, high-precision mapping remains challenging in subtropical monsoon regions due to persistent cloud cover, long re...
Global agri-food systems face a critical conflict between the need to feed a growing population and the imperative to mitigate its substantial environmental impact, including 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 70% of freshwater withdrawals. T...
The maturity of cannabis flowers at harvest critically influences cannabinoid yield and product quality. However, conventional assessment methods rely on subjective visual inspection of trichomes and stigmas, making them inherently inconsistent. This...
In response to the problems of poor operating stability and easy tipping of small agricultural machinery under the complex terrain of hilly and mountainous areas, this study designed a tracked mobile platform suitable for hilly and mountainous areas...
Although many countries have reduced the use of agricultural price intervention policies, such measures continue to be applied intermittently by the Thai government. In the current work, which examines the cassava price intervention policy from 1981...
Visual harvest maturity is a key visual phenotype for orchard management and harvesting decisions, yet chestnut fruits in natural orchards often exhibit weak color contrast, subtle texture variation, blurred boundaries, and frequent occlusion under c...
Semantic point cloud maps play a pivotal role in smart agriculture. They provide not only core three-dimensional data for orchard management but also empower robots with environmental perception, enabling safer and more efficient navigation and plann...
We aim to address the insufficient robustness of navigational line detection for rapeseed seed production sires in complex field scenarios and the challenges faced by existing models in balancing precision, real-time performance, and resource consump...
Given that nitrogen (N) is a major limiting factor for global crop production, improving low-nitrogen (LN) tolerance in barley is essential for sustaining yields worldwide. Building on our laboratory’s previous quantitative trait locus (QTL) ma...
Saline–alkali soil salinization is a global ecological crisis affecting 932 million hectares of land worldwide, posing a severe threat to food security and ecological sustainability. Traditional improvement methods, such as chemical amendments...
Agricultural development is vital to rural economies in developing countries. Rural e-commerce has emerged as an important instrument for promoting rural economic transformation, yet its impact on agricultural development remains underexplored. Using...
This study aims to assess the evolution of land cover in the Lam Phra Phloeng (LPP) watershed and predict future land use patterns. By employing the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and several spectral indices, high classification accuracy (&g...
The poultry sector plays a crucial role in global food production by meeting the growing demand for affordable, nutritious protein sources. However, it faces significant challenges in providing sustainable and cost-effective nutritional solutions tha...
Modern agriculture requires optimizing available resources to maximize production while minimizing environmental impact without increasing economic costs. Hydroponic agriculture replaces soil with inert media that provide physical support for plants...
The performance of the cleaning system in crop harvesters directly impacts overall operational efficiency and harvest quality. Against the background of traditional design relying on physical experiments—which is costly and provides limited mec...
To address the low application accuracy and poor spreading uniformity of conventional lime spreaders, an electromagnetic vibration-assisted variable-rate lime spreader integrating a shaftless screw metering mechanism was developed. The overall config...
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) plays a pivotal role in global food security as a primary source of vegetable protein and oil. However, its production is increasingly jeopardized by the frequent concurrence of drought and heat stress, a scenario pre...
Grain quality traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), including protein content, gluten strength, and carbohydrate composition, are key determinants of end-use performance and breeding potential. This study assessed the genetic variability, stability...
As the demand for poultry meat and eggs is increasing in the world, and the use of antibiotics is forbidden in Europe (since 2006), with countries such as the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and China having imposed restriction or prohibitions, res...
Biosecurity plays a central role in preventing disease transmission in dairy production systems and animal welfare. However, quantitative data on biosecurity implementation in smallholder and medium-scale dairy farms remains inconsistent, especially...
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