Agricultural Machinery and Agricultural Engineering: Current Achievements and Future Directions
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 36327
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agriculture; innovation; sustainability; soil management; natural resources; occupational safety and health; ergonomics
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Interests: mechanization; livestock automation; precision farming
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Interests: precision agriculture; agricultural mechanization; sensors; automation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the beginning of modern agriculture in the early 20th century, mechanization and engineering have contributed to increasing primary sector productivity. In the last several decades, agricultural engineering has significantly enhanced the global sustainability of crop production, harvesting and processing, satisfying the demands of consumers and a wide range of industries.
Currently, and in the near future, agriculture is called on to secure affordable, safe and healthy food, feed and fibers for a growing population in a unprecedentedly unstable world, without compromising the natural resources and assuring a safe and fair workplace for millions of people.
Agricultural mechanization and engineering are crucial in developing engineering-based technology to meet these urgent demands. In the last few years, we assisted the increasing application of leading-edge technologies to agriculture, targeting the development of solutions that significantly enhance productivity and competitiveness.
This SI welcomes contributions from scholars reporting current achievements and frontier experimentations identifying the future direction of applications of such cutting-edge engineering technologies in agriculture. This Special Issue will publish papers dealing with agriculture mechanization, automation and robotics, remote sensing, agricultural resources management, waste management and recycling, greenhouse gas emission, carbon sequestration, livestock production and management, bio-energies, energy efficiency in agriculture, circular economy, ICT, artificial intelligence, decision-support systems and technologies and solutions for precision, digital and smart agriculture, soil management and conservation, harvest and postharvest technology, water conservation storage and utilization, as well as farm buildings and facilities. We particularly encourage the submission of papers giving experimental evidence of the integration of disciplines such as engineering, mathematics/statistics/physics, automation, human–machine interface and ergonomics, and environmental and computer science. Contributions focusing on engineering technologies to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and to overcome and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic are welcome.
Dr. Eugenio Cavallo
Dr. Carlo Bisaglia
Dr. Francesco Marinello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agriculture mechanization
- automation and robotics
- remote sensing
- agricultural resources management
- waste management and recycling
- greenhouse gas emission
- carbon sequestration
- livestock production and management
- bio-energies
- energy efficiency in agriculture
- circular economy
- ICT
- artificial intelligence
- decision-support systems and technologies and solutions for precision
- digital and smart agriculture
- soil management and conservation
- harvest and postharvest technology
- water conservation storage and utilization
- farm buildings and facilities
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