New Trends in Crop Production Management Practices

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is perceived to be the greatest threat to food security and humankind in general in the 21st century. Over the past five decades, the increase in average air temperature on earth and its associated effects on climate and crops have become a concern worldwide. Climate change and biodiversity loss are already impacting agriculture. In the EU, agriculture drought is costing an average of EUR 9 billion a year in economic damage to agriculture, energy, and public water supply, whereas the global mean crop of cereals is projected to decrease by up to 10% per degree of warming. This is why the agricultural sector should focus more on sustainable crop production, creating new approaches in crop management practices by developing precision agriculture, farm automation, real-time kinematic technology, high remote sensing technology for crop health, and productivity monitoring in situ.

Therefore, this Special Issue aims to collect research papers where new approaches are applied to enhance crop production and mitigate climate change. Novel research papers will be considered if the aforementioned topics are employed to develop crop production management in the agricultural sector.

Dr. Agnieszka Klimek-Kopyra
Prof. Dr. Bogdan Kulig
Guest Editors

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