Emerging Technologies in Crop Protection: Advanced Methods and Machinery
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop protection methods; crop protection machinery; intelligent pesticide application technology; electrostatic spraying and nozzles
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Interests: crop protection machinery; direct nozzle injection systems; inline mixing of pesticides; intelligent pesticide application technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crops and their environment are geared to a generalized natural ecosystem. During the growth process, crops are subjected to the long-term biotic stresses of diseases, insects, weeds, and so on, as well as the abiotic stresses of droughts, floods, frost and freezing, and soil salinization, which cause significant changes in the structure and function of complex crop ecosystems and often accompany secondary disasters. Over thousands of years, the history of human survival and development has been accompanied by the struggle against these crop stresses. Crop protection practices have been significantly enriched and related machinery has been widely studied around the world.
This Special Issue focuses on building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research experiences, the emerging technologies of advanced methods (agricultural, physical, biological, chemical, plant quarantine, and integrated pest management), and environment-friendly machinery in crop protection. Intelligent crop protection technology is of crucial importance. The emerging technologies for crop protection methods and machinery include but are not limited to intelligent integrated pest management, crop protection UAVs and robots, AI-based crop pest identification, variable-rate technology, smart targeting spraying, and matching technology between crop phenotype customization and crop protection machinery operation, as well as other innovative ideas for strategies and solutions in crop protection.
We would like to invite scholars and researchers from around the world to contribute all types of articles, such as original research, reviews, and cutting-edge opinions to create a collection of papers on insightful strategies and innovative technologies for advanced methods and machinery in crop protection.
Prof. Dr. Jiaqiang Zheng
Prof. Dr. Youlin Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop pest identification
- crop protection methods
- crop protection machinery
- integrated pest management
- intelligent pesticide application technology
- variable-rate technology
- crop protection UAVs and robots
- strategies and solutions
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