New Technological Applications in Agriculture for the Development of the Circular Bioeconomy, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioeconomy of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 1312
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Interests: agricultural mechanization, automatization and informatization
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Interests: agricultural informatization
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Dear Colleagues,
With the improvement in people’s living standard and the strengthening of environmental protection awareness, environmentally friendly green food and organic food are being paid increasing amounts of attention, and so the agricultural circular economy is put forward, aiming to achieve a balance between agricultural production and environmental protection. Increasing amounts of technologies are emerging to be widely used in agriculture. For example, green prevention and control technology can prevent and control pests and diseases and reduce pesticide residues in soil and agricultural products. Soil testing and formulated fertilization is used for quantitative fertilization in farmland to improve the use efficiency of fertilizer, avoid fertilizer waste, and ensure the rationality of fertilization. Deep learning methods can automatically identify and classify crops using image recognition technology, achieve the automation and intelligence of the agricultural production process, and improve agricultural production efficiency. In addition, new concepts such as “Internet plus agriculture” and “digital villages” are proposed.
Developing an agricultural circular economy is an inevitable choice to protect the rural ecological environment and for sustainable development in agriculture. For this process, technological innovation is particularly important. On the premise of respecting and utilizing the laws of nature, cross integration with new technologies is an important development direction of the agricultural circular economy in the future, which will inject a new impetus into increasing farmers’ incomes and rural economic and social development.
This Special Issue aims to provide a platform to publicize the agricultural circular economy and report the important research progress of new technologies, new methods, and new equipment in the circular agricultural economy, focusing on new applications of agricultural informatization, intelligent equipment technology, and green prevention and control technology. We welcome submissions from a variety of research directions, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
(1) Research progress of green prevention and control technology in agricultural circular economy;
(2) Research progress of Internet of Things technology in agricultural circular economy;
(3) Research progress of agricultural information technology in agricultural circular economy;
(4) Research progress of intelligent equipment technology in agricultural circular economy;
(5) Research progress of soil testing and formulated fertilization in agricultural circular economy;
(6) Research progress of artificial intelligence technology in agricultural circular economy;
(7) Research progress of “5S” technology in agricultural circular economy;
(8) Research progress of big data technology in agricultural circular economy.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Yingkuan Wang
Dr. Jianbo Shen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural circular economy
- digital villages
- new technologies
- new methods
- new equipment
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