2023 March - 41 articles
Tank mixing of pesticides, a common practice in many countries, when performed incorrectly, can negatively impact the effectiveness of the pesticides. This study aimed to investigate the physical–chemical properties, droplet spectrum, and absor...
The level of garlic consumption in Indonesia increases as the population grows. This is because most of the ingredients of Indonesian food recipes contain garlic. However, local garlic production is not sufficient to fulfil the demand. Therefore, the...
This work aimed to evaluate the effect of calcium on the development of corn plants grown with the omission and excess of calcium in a nutrient solution. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse from March to May 2012. Three concentrations of cal...
The leaf extracts of Gymnema sylvestre consist of secondary metabolites which are well known for antioxidant activity. This study aimed to measure the drying characteristics of G. sylvestre leaves under far-infrared radiation (FIR) and to optimize th...
Climate change has drawn the attention not only of scientists but of politicians and societies worldwide. The aim of this paper is to present a method for selecting research studies on climate change, waste management and the role of microbes in the...
To ensure the care of forests, it is necessary to make them sufficiently accessible by forest roads. The basic working tool are hammers, or round shanks of various shapes, composed of a body and a tip. They are subject to a strong abrasive environmen...
The objective of this research is to apply Quality 4.0 (Q4.0) concept in Agriculture 4.0 (A4.0) to digitize the traditional quality management (QM) system and demonstrate the effectiveness of zero-defect manufacturing (ZDM) in the agricultural part m...
In the past few decades, fruits have been increasingly consumed, leading to an increase in global fruit production. However, fresh produce is susceptible to large losses during production and preservation. In the postharvest preservation stage, fruit...
Ground speed variations are common and unavoidable during pesticide applications with agricultural sprayers. Field tests were conducted to evaluate the effect of varying ground speeds on spray deposition and quality with a commercial agricultural boo...
26 February 2023
The emergence of precision and digital livestock farming presents an opportunity for sustainable animal farming practices that enhance animal welfare and health. However, this transformation of modern animal farming through digital technology has sev...
24 February 2023
One of the most important matters in international trades for many local apple industries and auctions is accurate fruit quality classification. Defect recognition is a key in online computer-assisted apple sorting machines. Because of the cavity str...
23 February 2023
Understanding the spatial variability of factors that influence crop yield is essential to apply site-specific management. The present study aimed to evaluate apparent soil electrical conductivity (ECa) in two fields (A = rainfeed; B = central-pivot...
22 February 2023
Chemical spraying is one of the most important and frequently performed intercultural agricultural operations. It is imperative to select the appropriate spraying technology as a selection of ineffective one leads to the wastage of a considerable vol...
21 February 2023
Utilization of agricultural waste can be done by converting it with conventional fuels to energy. For this purpose, it is necessary to understand the properties of waste and its mixture with the fossil fuels important for its storage and conversion....
20 February 2023
Object detection is one of the most promising research topics currently, whose application in agriculture, however, can be challenged by the difficulty of annotating complex and crowded scenes. This study presents a brief performance assessment of YO...
19 February 2023
The canned fruits industry utilizes high amounts of water and energy, which results in the generation of vast quantities of wastewater and solid waste. The main scope of this study was to compare the environmental footprint of a canned fruits industr...
17 February 2023
Permanent dryland pastures are the basis of animal feed in extensive grazing systems. Seasonality and inter-annual climatic variability, associated with shallow, acidic, and not very fertile soils, result in low productivity and rapid degradation of...
13 February 2023
In present-day Japan, high quality is the first requirement of rice production. To maintain the quality of rice, the prejudgment technique has been proposed to control rice growth or to separately harvest rice depending on its quality. Since the qual...
10 February 2023
Colour is a property widely used in many fields to extract information in several ways. In soil science, colour provides information regarding the chemical and physical characteristics of soil, such as genesis, composition, and fertility, amongst oth...
In precision agriculture, information technology is used to improve farm management practices. Thereby, productivity can be increased and challenges with overfertilization and water consumption can be addressed. This requires low-power and wireless u...
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is an essential parameter to assess the efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems on carbon transfer. Although GPP is regularly measured with eddy covariance (EC) systems, these are restricted to the tower footprint area,...
The development of robotic-based agricultural machinery systems has significantly increased in recent years. Many autonomous systems have not yet been measured based on sustainability and economic performances, even though automation is regarded as a...
The introduction of computer vision and machine learning into agricultural systems has produced significant new opportunities for high precision application of liquid products in both grain and livestock agriculture. These technologies, which enable...
Among the most common and serious tomato plant pests, leafminer flies (Liriomyza sativae) are considered one of the major tomato-plant-damaging pests worldwide. Detecting the infestation and quantifying the severity of these pests are essential for r...
Smart agriculture is a concept that refers to a revolution in the agriculture industry that promotes the monitoring of activities necessary to transform agricultural methods to ensure food security in an ever-changing environment. These days, the rol...
This research investigated the best economically viable power source with the least environmental impact and socially acceptable for the maize crop. Maize is one of the key economic crops in Pakistan. Solar-, electric-, and diesel-powered drip irriga...
The use of agricultural tractors is a major concern in agriculture safety due to the high level of risk of loss of stability combined with the frequent absence of passive safety devices such as rollover protective structures (ROPSs). Indeed, although...
Plastic contamination is a burning issue costing the global cotton and textile industries billions of dollars annually. Any time plastics from different sources end up in a cotton lint bale, the value to the textile mills plummets significantly. Vari...
The use of roller crimpers to terminate plants and obtain a natural mulch before cash crop establishment has been identified as a valid and sustainable approach to control weeds. Several enhancements have been evaluated to improve and speed up plant...
Whole-plant corn has been previously investigated as a biomass feedstock. Current approaches are analogous to harvesting whole-plant corn for livestock feed or biogas production. They include utilizing a self-propelled forage harvester to harvest the...
Pedological maps in suitable scales are scarce in most countries due to the high costs involved in soil surveying. Therefore, methods for surveying and mapping must be developed to overpass the cartographic material obtention. In this sense, this wor...
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Over the last few years, the impact of climate change has increased rapidly. It is influencing all steps of plant production and forcing farmers to change and adapt their crop management practices using new technologies based on data analytics. This...
Dynamic performance of a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning device (PD) is of interest to end users of satellite-based auto-guidance systems (AGS) for agricultural vehicles, especially when a low-cost PD is used. This study evaluat...
The different conditions of soil vegetation cover combined with irrigation management and/or agricultural production systems can influence soil moisture content and crop yields. This study investigated the impact of agricultural production systems an...
This review appraised current research on enzyme-embedded biodegradable agricultural plastics and microbial degradation, given that the increased use of fossil-fuel-based plastics in agriculture involved significant environmental tradeoffs. Over 370...
The objective of this study is to evaluate the water conditions in a coffee plantation using precision agriculture (PA) techniques associated with geostatistics and high-resolution images. The study area is 1.2 ha of coffee crops of the Topázi...
The demand for high quality and low-cost spatial distribution information of soil texture classes (STCs) is of great necessity in developing countries. This paper explored digital mapping of topsoil STCs using soil fractions, terrain attributes and a...
Introducing machine vision-based automation to the agricultural sector is essential to meet the food demand of a rapidly growing population. Furthermore, extensive labor and time are required in agriculture; hence, agriculture automation is a major c...
Returning straw to the field is very important of for the conservation tillage to increase land fertility. It is vital to detect the unevenness of the straw covering to evaluate the performance of no-tillage planter, especially for the ones with retu...
This abstract is an overview of our research project entitled “Innovative Forest Plantation”, currently in progress. The aim of this project is to automate traditionally manual tasks for poplar plantations in the first years after plantin...
