Precision Planting Technology and Equipment in Advanced Crop Cultivation

Dear Colleagues,

The function of planting equipment is to sow the seeds (seedlings) of crops evenly into a certain depth of seed ditch with a certain sowing amount or spacing, cover them with an appropriate amount of fine and moist soil, and fertilize and suppress them appropriately. Pesticides and herbicides can be sprayed to provide good growth conditions for plant growing, thereby achieving high and stable yields and improving production efficiency.

In recent years, crop cultivation has continuously developed towards a direction that prioritizes yield and efficiency, which puts higher technical requirements on planting equipment. Therefore, advanced precision planting technology and equipment, as an essential means to promote large-scale agricultural production, has become a focus and hotspot in the current field of planting equipment research.

This Special Issue highlights influential research and commentary, focusing on the recent advances in precision planting technology and equipment. This issue will comprehensively cover interdisciplinary and comprehensive research on critical technologies and methods for advanced crop cultivation (precision seed-metering device, efficient and low loss transplanter, seed guide device, profiling mechanism, soil covering and compaction device, intelligent planting equipment, etc.) and research reports on other advanced technology systems promoting crop cultivation and production (variable rate seeding (fertilizing) technology, etc.). In addition, we encourage researchers to conduct practical research based on the actual planting conditions (soil, terrain, paddy fields, etc.) in their respective regions and to adopt innovative technologies and measures to solve the technical difficulties in current planting equipment operations. This Special Issue invites all types of articles mentioned above, using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods, as well as empirical preliminary research and comments.

Dr. Xiaojun Gao
Prof. Dr. Qinghui Lai
Dr. Tao Cui
Guest Editors

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• advanced planting equipment
• key technologies and methods
• precision seed-metering device
• seed guide device
• profiling mechanism
• soil compaction device
• stubble removal and anti-blocking device
• intelligent planting equipment
• efficient and low loss transplanter
• variable rate seeding
• seed cleaning and grading