Engineering Innovations in Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Rural development is an essential constituent of the global economy which allows employing 40 percent of the world's population and becoming the primary determinant of tackling the global problem of poverty. However, within agriculture, a decrease in the quantity and quality of crop harvest and livestock productivity is observed due to a deterioration in soil fertility, environment, as well as irrational use of natural resources. At the same time, agricultural areas are under pressure from population growth requiring more food production. As a result, it increases the expansion of people into intact primary areas so as to increase the area of crops, pastures, etc. which leads to the destruction of natural diversity. The solution to avoid the disaster is to increase agricultural production efficiency to expand crop harvest and livestock productivity without deteriorating their quality. It requires introducing innovative engineering technologies to agriculture. Fortunately, technology is developing rapidly nowadays and new driving scientific forces are emerging, such as big data, Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, renewable energy technologies, and drone technologies, which makes significant inroads into the development of all fields of agroengineering science.

The Special Issue “Engineering Innovations in Agriculture” aims to seek high-quality research and review articles from academics and industry-related researchers in the areas of Agricultural Engineering covering the following topics: harvesting and planting crops, livestock production, livestock and agro-food waste utilization, seed treatment and transportation, water treatment, agricultural robotic applications, solutions for digital and precision agriculture, hardware and software support for pest and weed control, machine learning, energy efficiency and conservation in agriculture.

Dr. Vadim Bolshev
Dr. Vladimir Panchenko
Prof. Dr. Alexey Sibirev
Guest Editors

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