Enhancing Crop Yield and Quality: Insights from Precision Agriculture and Agronomic Practices
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 284
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Interests: sustainable crop production; legume crops; oilseed crops; biodiversity; crop modeling; biostimulation
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Dear Colleagues,
In the 21st century, climate change presents a major challenge for agriculture. Extreme temperatures and changes in rainfall distribution are affecting crop production. To enhance crop yield and quality in the face of these challenges, scientists are working on creating new varieties of crops, which can be more easily cultivated in extreme environmental conditions, and new agrotechnology, which can increase yield and yield quality whilst maintaining minimal environmental impact.
Precision agriculture is a key approach for increasing crop productivity and quality. This approach uses technology, data and automation to optimize various aspects of agriculture, including seeding, fertilization, irrigation, weed and pest control. Using data from satellites, drones, and sensors, farmers can make more informed decisions about when and where to apply resources. This approach not only saves natural resources but also ensures that the necessary nutrients for plants are applied at the right time, leading to improved yields and quality.
Sustainability is important in the agricultural sector, and adopting sustainable farming practices can significantly increase crop yields and quality in the long term. Sustainable agriculture focuses on protecting the environment, conserving natural resources and promoting biodiversity while maintaining high crop productivity. Important elements of sustainable agriculture are practices that incorporate intercropping, the cultivation of legumes, and catch crops. A key practice of sustainable crop production is well-planned crop rotation that takes into account the cultivation of different groups of crops in succession to interrupt the proliferation of agrophages and improve the physical, chemical and microbiological properties of the soil. Sustainable practices not only contribute to soil regeneration, improving yields of useful crops, but also maintain high-quality soil for future generations.
Dr. Agnieszka Klimek-Kopyra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crop yield and quality
- agroecology
- precision agriculture
- agroforestry
- agronomic practices
- sustainable crop production
- cropping systems
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