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  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
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Smart Farming Tool for Monitoring Nutrients in Soil and Plants for Precise Fertilization

  • Moreno Toselli,
  • Elena Baldi,
  • Filippo Ferro,
  • Simone Rossi and
  • Donato Cillis

The current political, social, and economic conditions place, more than ever, the need to sustainably supply nutrients for plants, integrating low-impact, crop-adapted, variable-rate-application fertilizer solutions, at the center of attention. Ferti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,419 Views
20 Pages

Potential of Precise Fertilization through Adoption of Management Zones Strategy to Enhance Wheat Production

  • Zainab Haroon,
  • Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema,
  • Shoaib Saleem,
  • Muhammad Amin,
  • Muhammad Naveed Anjum,
  • Muhammad Naveed Tahir,
  • Saddam Hussain,
  • Usama Zahid and
  • Faiza Khan

23 February 2023

The variability in soil properties and crop yield can be overcome by adoption of smart farming practices through interpolation and mapping of spatial variability patterns. Geospatial technologies can be utilized to determine the cause of spatial vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
664 Views
18 Pages

Nutrient Diagnosis and Precise Fertilization Model Construction of ‘87-1’ Grape (Vitis vinifera L.) Cultivated in a Facility

  • Haibo Wang,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Xiangbin Shi,
  • Xiaohao Ji,
  • Shengyuan Wang and
  • Tianzhong Li

31 October 2025

Rape is one of the most widely cultivated and highest-yielding fruit crops in the world. However, research on its precise nutrient diagnosis and fertilization theory is severely lacking, significantly restricting the development of the grape industry...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,246 Views
26 Pages

5 April 2024

As a key component of fertilization equipment, the fertilizer discharger has an important impact on the accuracy of the amount of fertilizer applied during the fertilization process. Countries around the world have been advocating for reducing the us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,586 Views
19 Pages

Development and Performance Evaluation of a Precise Application System for Liquid Starter Fertilizer while Sowing Maize

  • Changchang Yu,
  • Qingjie Wang,
  • Xinpeng Cao,
  • Xiuhong Wang,
  • Shan Jiang and
  • Shaojun Gong

3 September 2021

At present, liquid starter fertilizer (LSF) application technologies experience problems with low fertilizer utilization efficiency. In this study, we adopted a method of precise application of LSF near the seeds on seed bed in point form during sowi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,172 Views
18 Pages

Design Optimization and Experimentation of Triple-Head Gradually Reducing Spiral Precision Fertilizer Apparatus

  • Guoqiang Dun,
  • Quanbao Sheng,
  • Haitian Sun,
  • Xinxin Ji,
  • Zhenzhen Yu,
  • Hongxuan Wang,
  • Xingpeng Wu,
  • Yuhan Wei,
  • Chaoxia Zhang and
  • Hailiang Li
  • + 1 author

14 September 2024

In order to solve the problems of existing spiral fertilizer apparatuses, such as the variation in cavity filling rate with rotational speed, fluctuation of fertilizer discharge flow, and inability to discharge fertilizer precisely, a triple-head gra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,390 Views
30 Pages

Evolution and Application of Precision Fertilizer: A Review

  • Luxi Wang,
  • Jianmin Gao and
  • Waqar Ahmed Qureshi

12 August 2025

This paper reviews technological advances in precision fertilizer application from 2020 to 2025, addressing the need for a systematic synthesis of recent innovations to support agricultural sustainability. With precision fertilization critical for ef...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,124 Views
30 Pages

Precision Fertilization and Irrigation: Progress and Applications

  • Yue Lu,
  • Mingzheng Liu,
  • Changhe Li,
  • Xiaochu Liu,
  • Chengmao Cao,
  • Xinping Li and
  • Za Kan

The transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture are required to address its shortcomings and deficiencies, which have resulted in environmental pollution or water problems. Precision agriculture emerged at the historic moment to solve the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,851 Views
20 Pages

24 September 2023

In order to solve the problem of uniform and precise fertilizer discharge, based on experimental analysis of the uneven nature of single-screw fertilizer discharge, a double arc groove screw fertilizer discharger was designed based on the principle o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,549 Views
22 Pages

Optimal Design and Experiment of Electronically Controlled Inclined Spiral Precision Fertilizer Discharger

  • Guoqiang Dun,
  • Quanbao Sheng,
  • Xinxin Ji,
  • Chaoxia Zhang,
  • Shang Gao,
  • Yuhan Wei and
  • Yinan Han

In order to solve the traditional single-spiral fertilizer discharger issue of the fluctuation of fertilizer-discharge flow and the problem of precise fertilizer discharge, the innovative design of a cantilevered oblique placement of a fertilizer-dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,510 Views
27 Pages

2 September 2022

The purpose of a comprehensive field experiment was to evaluate the agronomic efficiency of a precise organomineral fertilizer system based on a uniform and differentiated application of mineral and organic fertilizers. The methodological basis of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,059 Views
27 Pages

Towards Precision Fertilization: Multi-Strategy Grey Wolf Optimizer Based Model Evaluation and Yield Estimation

  • Chengcheng Chen,
  • Xianchang Wang,
  • Huiling Chen,
  • Chengwen Wu,
  • Majdi Mafarja and
  • Hamza Turabieh

7 September 2021

Precision fertilization is a major constraint in consistently balancing the contradiction between land resources, ecological environment, and population increase. Even more, it is a popular technology used to maintain sustainable development. Nitroge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,757 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2022

China has had the highest fertilizer use rate in the world for years, but today a large number of farmlands still use traditional manual fertilizer application methods, which rely entirely on personal experience and not only cause the waste of fertil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,959 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2023

China’s field crops such as cotton, wheat, and tomato have been produced on a large scale, but their cultivation process still adopts more traditional manual fertilization methods, which makes the use of chemical fertilizers in China high and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
14,793 Views
14 Pages

Precision for Smallholder Farmers: A Small-Scale-Tailored Variable Rate Fertilizer Application Kit

  • Jelle Van Loon,
  • Alicia B. Speratti,
  • Louis Gabarra and
  • Bram Govaerts

Precision agriculture technology at the hands of smallholder farmers in the developing world is often deemed far-fetched. Low-resource farmers, however, are the most susceptible to negative changes in the environment. Providing these farmers with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,381 Views
27 Pages

We propose a dynamic monitoring and precision fertilization decision system for agricultural soil nutrients, integrating UAV remote sensing and GIS technologies to address the limitations of traditional soil nutrient assessment methods. The proposed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,859 Views
17 Pages

5 December 2023

In order to mitigate time-varying, lag, and nonlinearity impacts on fertilization systems and achieve precise control of liquid conductivity, we propose a novel hybrid-optimized fractional-order proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithm. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,356 Views
11 Pages

Research on Precise Fertilization Method of Rice Tillering Stage Based on UAV Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Prescription Map

  • Fenghua Yu,
  • Juchi Bai,
  • Zhongyu Jin,
  • Honggang Zhang,
  • Zhonghui Guo and
  • Chunling Chen

18 November 2022

Tillering fertilization is an important part of field management in rice production. As the first peak fertilizer requirement period of rice, tillering fertilization directly affects the number of tillers and the growth of rice in the middle and late...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,008 Views
14 Pages

28 August 2020

Mineral fertilization through irrigation (fertigation) could optimize resource allocation and eliminate wastes in agriculture. Nevertheless, the fertigation of almond plantations is currently inefficient (50% nitrogen (N) recovery by yields) due to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,298 Views
12 Pages

28 November 2023

The traditional air-assisted side-deep fertilization device has some problems, such as inaccurate control system parameters and poor precision in variable fertilization. It seriously affects the application and popularization of the device. Aiming at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,022 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2023

Due to the unique structural characteristics of the traditional spiral fertilizer applicator, the instantaneous filling coefficient cannot be determined, which is not conducive to achieving precise control of the fertilizer discharge rate. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,842 Views
13 Pages

The Comparison Analysis of Uniform-and Variable-Rate Fertilizations on Winter Wheat Yield Parameters Using Site-Specific Seeding

  • Marius Kazlauskas,
  • Egidijus Šarauskis,
  • Kristina Lekavičienė,
  • Vilma Naujokienė,
  • Kęstutis Romaneckas,
  • Indrė Bručienė,
  • Sidona Buragienė and
  • Dainius Steponavičius

16 December 2022

Wheat is among the world’s most important agricultural crops, with winter wheat accounting for approximately 25.5% of the total agricultural crop in Lithuania. The unchangeable goal of crop production is to achieve good and economically benefic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,503 Views
23 Pages

Design and Field Experiment of Synchronous Hole Fertilization Device for Maize Sowing

  • Feng Pan,
  • Jincheng Chen,
  • Baiwei Wang,
  • Ziheng Fang,
  • Jinxin Liang,
  • Kangkang He and
  • Chao Ji

The disadvantages of traditional strip fertilization technology for corn planting in China include low fertilizer utilization rates, unstable operation quality, and environmental pollution. Therefore, in this study, a synchronous hole fertilization d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
6,986 Views
18 Pages

31 December 2020

Detection of weeds and crops is the key step for precision spraying using the spraying herbicide robot and precise fertilization for the agriculture machine in the field. On the basis of k-mean clustering image segmentation using color information an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,067 Views
15 Pages

Design and Experimental Research of Variable Formula Fertilization Control System Based on Prescription Diagram

  • Kang Niu,
  • Shenghe Bai,
  • Liming Zhou,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Lijin Liu,
  • Yanwei Yuan,
  • Deqiu Yang,
  • Shi Xiong and
  • Weipeng Zhang

30 December 2021

In order to solve the problems such as the inability to automatically mix a variety of solid fertilizers and the unreasonable fertilizer amount, improve fertilizer utilization, and reduce production costs, this study designs a variable formula fertil...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
13,873 Views
19 Pages

Nitrogen is a vital ingredient for plant development and growth. It is one of the most crucial indicators of soil fertility and crop growth conditions. For the monitoring of nitrogen loss patterns and the development of crop nitrogen fertilizer appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,180 Views
17 Pages

Typical fertilizer applicators are often restricted in performance due to non-uniformity in distribution, required labor and time intensiveness, high discharge rate, chemical input wastage, and fostering weed proliferation. To address this gap in pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
500 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2025

Excess fertiliser and sub-optimal irrigation threaten soil health in greenhouse vegetable systems on black soils. This study explored how water–fertilizer regimes shape soil aggregate structure, stability, and soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,873 Views
15 Pages

Design and Experiment of Row-Controlled Fertilizing–Weeding Machine for Rice Cultivation

  • Yangjie Shi,
  • Xiaobo Xi,
  • Hao Gan,
  • Xiang Shan,
  • Yifu Zhang,
  • Hui Shen and
  • Ruihong Zhang

Current approaches to topdressing and weeding operations for rice cultivation present several disadvantages, such as poor precision, low efficiency, serious environmental pollution, and so on. This paper presents a row-controlled fertilizing–weeding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
19,267 Views
23 Pages

Data-Driven Analysis and Machine Learning-Based Crop and Fertilizer Recommendation System for Revolutionizing Farming Practices

  • Christine Musanase,
  • Anthony Vodacek,
  • Damien Hanyurwimfura,
  • Alfred Uwitonze and
  • Innocent Kabandana

13 November 2023

Agriculture plays a key role in global food security. Agriculture is critical to global food security and economic development. Precision farming using machine learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising approach to increasing crop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
578 Views
19 Pages

Variable-Rate Nitrogen Application in Rainfed Barley: A Drought-Year Case Study

  • Jaume Arnó,
  • Alexandre Escolà,
  • Leire Sandonís-Pozo and
  • José A. Martínez-Casasnovas

17 December 2025

This study explores the potential of Precision Agriculture (PA) to optimize top-dressing nitrogen (N) fertilization in rainfed barley under drought conditions in Central Catalonia (Spain). Efficient N management is critical in Mediterranean dryland w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,039 Views
13 Pages

12 December 2023

An accurate assessment of soil fertility is crucial for monitoring environmental dynamics, improving agricultural productivity, and achieving sustainable land management and utilization. The inherent complexity and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of soi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,019 Views
22 Pages

Intelligent Algorithm Optimization of Liquid Manure Spreading Control

  • Pengjun Wang,
  • Yongsheng Chen,
  • Binxing Xu,
  • Aibing Wu,
  • Jingjing Fu,
  • Mingjiang Chen and
  • Biao Ma

The growth of field crops needs appropriate soil nutrients. As a basic fertilizer, liquid manure provides biological nutrients for crop growth and increases the content of organic matter in crops. However, improper spraying not only reduces soil fert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,617 Views
14 Pages

Diagnosis of the Spatial Variability of Soil Nutrients and Economics of Precision Management in Degraded Pastures

  • Jefferson Santana da Silva Carneiro,
  • Rubson da Costa Leite,
  • José Moisés Ferreira Junior,
  • Álvaro José Gomes de Faria,
  • Sérgio Henrique Godinho Silva,
  • Antonio Clementino dos Santos and
  • Rubens Ribeiro da Silva

23 November 2022

Most Brazilian pastures are in some stage of degradation, either by the reduction of soil fertility or inadequate management. The objective of this study was to diagnose the stage of pasture degradation and the diagnosis and management of the spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,865 Views
19 Pages

Precision Nitrogen Fertilization for Opium Poppy Using Combined Proximal and Remote Sensor Data Fusion

  • Muhammad Abdul Munnaf,
  • Angela Guerrero,
  • Maria Calera and
  • Abdul Mounem Mouazen

21 November 2023

Proper management of within-field variability is crucial for maximizing crop yield, production outcomes and resource use efficiency and reducing environmental impacts. This study evaluated the agroeconomic and environmental feasibilities of site-spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,763 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2022

This work is a contribution to applied water and fertilizer coupling efforts aiming at increasing crop productivity on sugarcane plantations through the analysis of average cane yields obtained following main agronomic traits in growth and sugar cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,060 Views
14 Pages

Stability and Adaptability of Maize Hybrids for Precision Crop Production in a Long-Term Field Experiment in Hungary

  • Csaba Bojtor,
  • Seyed Mohammad Nasir Mousavi,
  • Árpád Illés,
  • Adrienn Széles,
  • János Nagy and
  • Csaba L. Marton

28 October 2021

Sustainability is one of the main components of precision farming that will lead to food security and production resources for current and future generations. The selection of suitable hybrids and fertilizers is among the methods that can directly in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,909 Views
17 Pages

Intra-Plot Variable N Fertilization in Winter Wheat through Machine Learning and Farmer Knowledge

  • Asier Uribeetxebarria,
  • Ander Castellón,
  • Ibai Elorza and
  • Ana Aizpurua

23 September 2022

The variable fertilization rate (VFR) technique has demonstrated its ability to reduce nutrient losses by adapting the fertilizer dose to crop needs. However, transferring this technology to farms is not easy. This study aimed to make a variable fert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,268 Views
11 Pages

8 August 2021

For precise fertilization of blueberry plants, it is technologically the easiest and most suitable option to use a volumetric filling, for which it can be presumed that it is possible to precisely dose the fertilizer for each plant by grams. For sett...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,590 Views
14 Pages

8 February 2023

Cocoplum (Chrysobalanus icaco) is an ecologically significant native species to Southern Florida. Application of precision agriculture technologies such as optical sensors reduces the cost of over-fertilization and nutrient runoff. The aim of this wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,124 Views
33 Pages

10 September 2023

Precision agriculture (PA), management zone (MZ) strategies at the field level, soil analyses, deficit irrigation (DI), and fertilizer Variable Rate Application (VRA) are management strategies that help farmers improve crop production, fertilizer use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,857 Views
17 Pages

Wheat Yield Estimation with NDVI Values Using a Proximal Sensing Tool

  • Marta Aranguren,
  • Ander Castellón and
  • Ana Aizpurua

25 August 2020

Nitrogen (N) splitting is critical to achieving high crop yields without having negative effects on the environment. Monitoring crop N status throughout the wheat growing season is key to finding the balance between crop N requirements and fertilizer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,590 Views
19 Pages

Addressing within-field spatial variability for nitrogen (N) management to avoid over and under-use of nitrogen is crucial for optimizing crop productivity and ensuring environmental sustainability. In this study, we investigated the economic, enviro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,400 Views
18 Pages

Detecting Changes in Soil Fertility Properties Using Multispectral UAV Images and Machine Learning in Central Peru

  • Lucia Enriquez,
  • Kevin Ortega,
  • Dennis Ccopi,
  • Claudia Rios,
  • Julio Urquizo,
  • Solanch Patricio,
  • Lidiana Alejandro,
  • Manuel Oliva-Cruz,
  • Elgar Barboza and
  • Samuel Pizarro

Remote sensing is essential in precision agriculture as this approach provides high-resolution information on the soil’s physical and chemical parameters for detailed decision making. Globally, technologies such as remote sensing and machine le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,983 Views
23 Pages

An Approach for Route Optimization in Applications of Precision Agriculture Using UAVs

  • Kshitij Srivastava,
  • Prem Chandra Pandey and
  • Jyoti K. Sharma

18 September 2020

This research paper focuses on providing an algorithm by which (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) UAVs can be used to provide optimal routes for agricultural applications such as, fertilizers and pesticide spray, in crop fields. To utilize a minimum amount o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,344 Views
11 Pages

Use of In Situ Soil Solution Electric Conductivity to Evaluate Mineral N in Commercial Orchards: Preliminary Results

  • Elena Baldi,
  • Maurizio Quartieri,
  • Enrico Muzzi,
  • Massimo Noferini and
  • Moreno Toselli

The aim of the present experiment was to evaluate the effectiveness of soil electrical conductivity (EC) measurement as a fast tool to assess mineral nitrogen (N) in orchards, in order to define precise N inputs that can help farmers to reduce useles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,591 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Variable Device Structural Changes on Particle Deposition Distribution in Multi-Rotor UAV

  • Jingang Han,
  • Tongsheng Zhang,
  • Lilian Liu,
  • Guobin Wang,
  • Cancan Song and
  • Yubin Lan

16 October 2024

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of structural changes in variable fertilizer application devices on the distribution of particle deposition in UAVs. With the rapid development of drone technology, particularly in particulate sprea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
332 Views
15 Pages

Efficient nitrogen (N) management is essential for sustaining crop productivity while minimizing environmental impacts associated with excessive fertilizer use. Variable-rate application (VRA) offers a precision-based approach to matching N inputs wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
279 Views
22 Pages

Real-Time Detection and Validation of a Target-Oriented Model for Spindle-Shaped Tree Trunks Leveraging Deep Learning

  • Kang Zheng,
  • Shuo Yang,
  • Zhichong Wang,
  • Hao Fu,
  • Xiu Wang,
  • Wei Zou,
  • Changyuan Zhai and
  • Liping Chen

15 January 2026

To enhance the automation and intelligence of trenching fertilization operations, this research proposes a real-time trunk detection model (Trunk-Seek) designed for spindle-shaped orchards. The model employs a customized data augmentation strategy an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,629 Views
18 Pages

Intraoperative Ultrasound as a Decision-Making Tool in Modern Gynecologic Oncology

  • Mohamed Lakany,
  • Amana Sharif,
  • Moiad Alazzam,
  • Catherine Howell,
  • Sian Mitchell,
  • Christina Pappa,
  • Dana Shibli,
  • Lisa Story and
  • Ahmad Sayasneh

Background: Intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) is revolutionizing gynecologic oncology surgery by overcoming the limitations of traditional imaging and intraoperative assessment. Its real-time, high-resolution capabilities address critical needs in tum...

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