Harvesting the Future: Transforming Agricultural Practices Through AI Application
A special issue of AI (ISSN 2673-2688).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 1224
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Interests: soil remediation and protection; electric agricultural machinery; intelligent agricultural machinery; intelligent agriculture; agricultural low-carbon technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How to enhance agricultural production efficiency, ensure food security and achieve sustainable development under limited resource conditions have become urgent questions that need addressing in the future of agriculture. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought unprecedented opportunities to the agricultural sector, and AI is gradually becoming the core driving force for transforming traditional agricultural practices and promoting agricultural modernization.
With its powerful capabilities in data processing, pattern recognition and predictive analysis, artificial intelligence is penetrating into every aspect of agricultural production, management and sales. There are myriad agricultural applications for AI, including genetic analysis and variety optimization in intelligent breeding, intelligent irrigation and fertilization decision-making in precision agriculture, early monitoring and early warning for disease and pest diagnosis, intelligent agricultural machinery and agricultural robots for smart production, intelligent detection and grading of agricultural product quality, intelligent management of agricultural supply chain, and prediction and risk assessment of agricultural markets. The application of AI is profoundly transforming the face of agriculture, significantly enhancing the precision, efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production.
This Special Issue focuses on the frontier topic "Harvesting the Future: Transforming Agricultural Practices Through AI Application", aiming to bring together researchers, scholars, engineers and industry practitioners in the field of agriculture from around the world to jointly discuss the latest research progress, innovative application cases and future development trends of AI technology in agriculture. We hope that through this Special Issue, we can establish a cross-disciplinary and cross-field communication platform, promoting intellectual exchange and cooperation among professionals with different disciplinary backgrounds, accelerating the innovative application and promotion of AI technology in agriculture and providing new ideas and solutions to address the challenges faced by agriculture globally.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zhaoyang Yu
Dr. Song Mei
Dr. Hongbo Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent breeding
- intelligent rearing
- intelligent planting
- precision agriculture
- intelligent pest and disease diagnosis
- intelligent agricultural machinery
- agricultural robots
- agricultural sensors
- intelligent management of agricultural production
- digital village
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