Top Research Papers on Agriculture

The study underlines the immense potential of IoT in shaping the future of agriculture by harnessing real-time data, advanced analytics, and intelligent decision-making systems.

The aim of this paper is to present in a systematic view the agricultural digital transformation in the Agriculture 4.0, in the framework of sustainable development of agriculture.

The globe is generating top frameworks or user-friendly systems to assist people, and agriculture is one of the most significant sectors where extensive and advanced study has been developed. This article emphasizes the significance of agriculture in computer science and engineering, as well as how modern technologies such as ML, IoT, Big Data, and Cyber are influencing agriculture. A thorough analysis was done and discussed, which describes certain existing frameworks and procedures in the agriculture industry from 2020 to 2023. This study discusses how top technologies such as ML, IoT, Big d...

The paper is centered on the concept of conservation agriculture (CA), which is defined as a sustainable cultivation system for the future. Conservation agriculture (CA) is a sustainable farming system that promotes minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover, and crop rotations to maintain soil health and productivity. This approach focuses on maximizing natural resources, reducing inputs, and improving the efficiency of nutrient use. CA practices have been found to reduce soil erosion, conserve water, and increase soil organic matter, leading to improved crop yields and reduced greenhouse...

Precision farming refers to the latest trends in agriculture that use technology to improve quality, quantity, and productivity, thereby ensuring profitability, sustainability, betterment, and preservation of the environment. The paper discusses the development and needs for precision agriculture in India with its existing problems and opportunities. The challenges in the future cannot be resolved with ancient methods. In order to make agriculture efficient and sustainable, investment in new technologies accompanied by research and development is required. Agronomics is the highest contributor...

: Agricultural insurance and agricultural credit, as the two major grips of financial support for agriculture, are of great significance in promoting agricultural economic development and realizing the rural revitalization strategy. This paper selects panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2007-2019 and uses Tobit model to explore the intrinsic relationship between agricultural insurance, agricultural credit and agricultural economic development, as well as the impact of the synergistic effect of the two on agricultural economic development, based on theoretical and empirical analysis. The c...

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is poised to revolutionize a variety of sectors, including healthcare, finance, transportation, and education. Within healthcare, AGI is being utilized to analyze clinical medical notes, recognize patterns in patient data, and aid in patient management. Agriculture is another critical sector that impacts the lives of individuals worldwide. It serves as a foundation for providing food, fiber, and fuel, yet faces several challenges, such as climate change, soil degradation, water scarcity, and food security. AGI has the potential to tackle these issues by en...

Abstract Agriculture plays an indispensable role in the economic system of all countries, and the issue of agricultural carbon emissions has become a challenge to the sustainable development of the global economy. Against this backdrop, based on the data of 30 provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and autonomous regions (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet) in China from 2005 to 2019, this current study comprehensively uses the two-way fixed effect panel model and panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model to explore the static and dynamic relationships between agricul...

Endophytic fungi and bacteria live asymptomatically within plant tissues. In recent decades, research on endophytes has revealed that their significant role in promoting plants as endophytes has been shown to enhance nutrient uptake, stress tolerance, and disease resistance in the host plants, resulting in improved crop yields. Evidence shows that endophytes can provide improved tolerances to salinity, moisture, and drought conditions, highlighting the capacity to farm them in marginal land with the use of endophyte-based strategies. Furthermore, endophytes offer a sustainable alternative to t...

Hydroponics, also known as controlled environment agriculture, is a method of cultivating plants and herbs without soil using mineral-supplemented solutions. Agriculture biotechnology enhances its wings on developing genetically modified plants for expanding crop yield and introducing characteristic features such as growing seasonal crops throughout the year, weather-resistant, and pest resistance. Compared to traditional agriculture, hydroponic cultivation yields high-quality crops with 90% more efficient use of water. Therefore, hydroponic cultivation could be considered a succeeding future ...

In recent decades, the Chinese government launched a socialized agricultural service system to help smallholders quickly modernize. This system helps farmers adopt modern-day farming operations to meet ever-increasing food and fiber requirements. The present study was conducted to analyze the impacts of this system on agricultural production efficiency. To this end, the Hubei province of China was selected, and the required data were retrieved from the Hubei Statistical Yearbook and Rural Statistical Yearbook for the years 2008 to 2019. The entropy method was applied to measure the extent of t...

Generational renewal is a core issue in European agriculture. Despite the continuous efforts of governments and the EU Council, the ageing of farmers seems an unstoppable process, accompanied by land concentration, the decrease in agricultural activity and the transformation of the European countryside. Consequently, there is a very rich scientific literature analysing the problem; a great part of it argues that the young farmer problem consists, in fact, in a number of different problems, with these problems showing huge regional differences. Hungary, as a new member state, with a heterogeneo...

With the rapid development of China’s economy, China has become the world’s largest carbon emitter. China not only has an obvious growth rate of industrial carbon emissions but also the intensity of agricultural carbon emissions is hovering at a high level. The development of China’s agricultural economy has largely come at the expense of high emissions. Currently, under the background of global warming and difficulty in controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the development of low-carbon agriculture is an important way to realize the harmonious development of the ecological environment and eco...

. In article indicated comparative results agrochemical and chemical characteristic basic virgin and irrigated soils. The research shown, that explored ground are characterized by miscellaneous by degree and type salinity, gypsum, small contents of organic material and main element of the feeding the plants. The reason this is disadvantageous soil-climatic particularities of the object, which promote the quick accumulation of saline spare in soils at the depth of 0.5–1.5 m (that is connected with low atmospheric moistening) that brings reduction a level of fertilities of the main soils of the ...

: Organic agriculture has the potential to meet the world's food needs while using resources sustainably. This review highlights how organic farming promotes sustainable resource use in food production and development, leading to less pollution and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, ultimately combating climate change. Recent studies indicate that organic farming is well-equipped to feed the current and future population. Organic yields are comparable to conventional yield outperform during droughts, use 45% less energy, and are more efficient. Conventional farming systems generate 40% more gre...

The agricultural SAM adapter (ASA) is proposed, which incorporates agricultural domain expertise into the segmentation model through a simple but effective adapter technique, and enables zero-shot segmentation, providing a new approach for zero-sample image segmentation in the agricultural domain.

This comprehensive review article enlightens the potential of the IoT in the advancement of agriculture and the challenges faced when combining these advanced technologies with conventional agricultural systems and identified advanced prospects regarding the IoT, which are essential tools for sustainable agriculture.

The results demonstrate that from the time-series characteristics, digital agriculture presented a steady growth state from 2011 to 2019, and the relationship between the growth of digital agriculture and AGTFP presents an inverted U-shaped curve, with human capital playing a moderating role.

: Agriculture is one of the main contributors to carbon emissions and is also significantly affected by changing climate. This article investigates the impacts of agricultural support on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from agriculture in the European Union. Panel regression models were used to examine the influence of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on reducing GHGs from agriculture. First, estimates show that direct agricultural subsidies encouraged agricultural-related carbon emissions. Second, the study concludes that the expansion of organic agriculture and the rural deve...

The main difficulty of the document is to verify the many artificial intelligence applications in agriculture, including irrigation, weeding and spraying integrated with sensors and other tools used in robots and drones.

The concentration of arsenic in agricultural soils has become a global challenge. Arsenic sources in soils can be both anthropogenic and natural. Certain fertilizers can introduce arsenic into the agricultural soil. For this study, soil samples from a commercial farm in southwest Nigeria were analysed using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS). This study indicates that arsenic concentration in the farm land is fairly normal, with some portion of the farm having higher concentration than the WHO recommended standard limits in agricultural soils. Thus, there is need for immediat...

This study aims to investigate how the digital economy affects agricultural green total factor productivity (GTFP), and proposes relevant policy recommendations to promote green and sustainable agriculture development.

The evolution of Indian agriculture and the concept of digital technology are the main topics of this paper.

It is argued that pervasive heterogeneity makes the adoption process more challenging, limits the scope of many innovations, and contributes to the stagnation in technology use in Africa.

This study delves into the intricate dynamics between fiscal policies supporting agriculture and the non-linear influence of agricultural science and technology innovation on enhancing agricultural resilience. We conducted research across 31 provinces (including autonomous regions and municipalities) in China from 2007 to 2021.By constructing the evaluation index system of agricultural resilience, the entropy value method is used to measure the value of agricultural resilience, and then standard deviation ellipse and center of gravity migration analysis, benchmark regression model, heterogenei...

Various biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic factors are causing enormous food losses. Burgeoning human population demands for more food, however scarcity and unavailability of natural resources occurring globally. Major factors causing these losses include pests, diseases, pathogens, climatic changes, salinity, drought, loss of arable lands and weeds. Post-harvest losses are also responsible for devastating negative role towards global food losses. Inadequate use of resources leads to the exploitation and loss of arable land. Currently 38% losses to agriculture are solely caused by insect pests ...

For sustainable agricultural development, increasing efforts are put on promoting agricultural mechanization and green agricultural development all over the world. Based on the panel data of Chinese provincial agriculture from 2002 to 2018, the System Generalized Method of Moments model and mediation model are constructed to explore the paths of agricultural mechanization affecting green agricultural development. The results show that agricultural mechanization can not only promote the green agricultural development directly but also indirectly by transferring the agricultural labor force and ...

This study aims to analyze the effects of fiscal expenditures by the government on agricultural credit by considering the mediating role of sustainable agricultural growth and sustainable agricultural income. This study uses panel data from 31 Chinese provinces for the period 2009–2021. For in‐depth analysis, the sample is divided into different regions ‐ eastern, central, and western. For the empirical estimations, the ordinary least squares (OL), fixed effect (FE), random effect (RE), two‐way fixed effect (FE), and two‐stage least‐squares (2SLS) methods are employed. The results of the study...

As three out of every four people in developing countries dwell in rural areas today, agriculture continues to hold prime importance in the development and poverty reduction context. This 30th issue of the World Development Report (WDR) is divided into three parts and eleven chapters. The first part addresses the question of what agriculture can do for development while the second part shifts its focus towards the instruments that can be used to spur development through agriculture. Finally, the third section provides the policy recommendations for governments and other stakeholders on how the...

Agricultural engineering (AGEN) is one of two engineering degree programs offered in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering. AGEN students emphasize coursework in one of three engineering areas; machine design, test, or soil and water resources. Thus, some agricultural engineers are involved in the analysis and design of field machinery systems and machine components through study of the principles of mechanical design, joining techniques, hydraulics, controls, ergonomics, and safety. Others are evaluating machine or mechanical system functional performance based on study of test pro...

This project incorporate smart GPSbased remote-controlled robots to perform errands like weeding, sensing moisture, animal and bird scaring, spraying, and so on, and contains smart irrigation with savvy control and canny dynamic dependent on precise ongoing field information.

Agricultural technology integration has become a key strategy for attaining agricultural sustainability. This study examined the integration of technology in agricultural practices towards agricultural sustainability, using Greece as a case study. Data were collected using a questionnaire from 240 farmers and agriculturalists in Greece. The results showed a significant positive effect of technology integration on agricultural sustainability, with p-values indicating strong statistical relevance (types of technology used: p = 0.003; factors influencing technology adoption: p = 0.001; benefits o...

A general overview of RS technology is drawn with a special focus on the principal platforms of this technology, i.e., satellites and remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs), and the sensors used, in relation to the 5th industrial revolution.

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ABSTRACT:Agricultural financing plays a crucial role in enhancing agricultural productivity, profitability, and sustainability. These factors are essential for achieving food security, reducing poverty, and promoting economic growth in developing countries, such as Nigeria. However, agricultural financing faces various challenges, including high risks, low returns, inadequate infrastructure, weak institutions, and limited access to formal financial services. This study aims to examine the impact of agricultural financing on agricultural growth sustainability in Nigeria from 1985 to 2021, takin...

Improving agricultural environmental efficiency (AEE) is critical for sustainable and green agricultural advancement. However, there is limited research on the impact of agricultural mechanization on agricultural environmental efficiency. This study innovatively used micro-level survey data from the national fixed observation points of China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to employ a super-efficiency slacks-based measure (SBM) model with undesirable outputs for quantifying AEE. Additionally, a Tobit regression model was used to examine the influence of agricultural mechanization o...

The production process was negatively affected by the performance of the seeders-fertilizers, as in one area, more seeds were falling than necessary, increasing the cost per hectare and not adhering to the principles of cost minimization and profit maximization.

Climate change undeniably the biggest environmental risk whose impact is serious to combat hunger, malnutrition, disease and poverty worldwide. Climate-resilient crops are crucial for adapting to climate change, benefiting farmers by enhancing production, productivity, income, and mitigating threats of crop failure through improved soil health and temperature tolerance. The ICAR's 'National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture' (NICRA) initiative strives to enhance climate resilience in the nation's vulnerable regions. Extension agents, through awareness and support, play a crucial rol...

The development mode of expanding agricultural scale will inevitably lead to an increase in agricultural carbon emissions but the impacts of agricultural technology progress on agricultural carbon emission and carbon sink are still not quite clear. This paper firstly discuss the definition of agricultural technology level. Then the estimating methods of agricultural technology, agricultural carbon emission and carbon sink are introduced. Based on the China’s provincial panel data with 31 province from 2000 to 2019, the indicators are calculated and statistically analysed. After that, the repre...

Based on China's provincial panel data from 2007 to 2019, this article discusses the impact of agricultural insurance on agricultural green development, and discusses the issue of regional heterogeneity. This article first studies the impact mechanism of agricultural insurance on agricultural green development, calculates the agricultural green development index, and empirically analyzes the impact of agricultural insurance on agricultural green development. The empirical results show that agricultural insurance has an inhibitory effect on agricultural green development, and that the impact of...

The ultimate goal of this paper was to examine the degree of elasticity between two variables, namely, agricultural credit and agricultural growth, in Angola in the period 2003–2022. Time series data were fitted into the ARDL test using various econometric techniques such as the ADF stationarity test, the Granger causality test, and the ordinary least squares method as well as a vector error correction model (VECM) to analyze the relationship between agricultural credit and agricultural economic growth, showing a causal relationship. Both the impacts through elasticities and the optimal point ...

Due to the shifting climate, extreme events are being observed more frequently globally. Drought is one of the most common natural hazards that severely impacts communities in terms of economic losses and agricultural production disruption. Considering global trade, drought in an agricultural region affects the food security in other regions because of disrupted supply. Decision-makers often consult susceptibility maps when preparing mitigation plans so that the adverse impacts of a drought event can be reduced. Creating drought susceptibility maps can be demanding, requiring a lot of data (i....

The survey of researchers work of automation in agriculture with the support of sensors, Agricultural Robots and Drones and AI driven technologies to improve productivity is presented and limitations, challenges and future scope of smart agriculture is discussed.

Brazil is the largest nation in terms of arable land. It has abundant land and water resources. It is among the few nations with potential to increase agricultural productivity. Access to export markets is crucial for Brazilian agriculture. Brazil is the third biggest exporter of agro-food products after the European Union and the United States. It is now regarded as a top-5 producer of 34 commodities and is the largest net exporter in the world. It is a leading comprehensive exporter of soybean, sugar, coffee, oranges, poultry, beef, cotton, corn, orange juice, and ethanol. The nation is esse...

Currently, the integrated development of agriculture and tourism is one of the most critical strategic measures in China. The rapid growth of agricultural tourism integration presents the typical characteristics of expanding regional differences. Exploring the impact of agricultural tourism integration on the growth of green total factor productivity in agriculture has important theoretical and practical significance. This study constructs a comprehensive index system for agricultural tourism integration, measuring the development level of agricultural tourism integration in 30 sample province...

Agriculture 4.0 has paved the way for Philippine agriculture through the One Department of Agriculture (One DA) Agenda. The government is slowly paving its way to Agriculture 4.0 through the support of collaborating countries and agencies. The increasing digital integration and advanced technologies emphasizing precision farming have contributed to the industry's growth. The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors contributed 8.9% to the Philippines' GDP (PSA, 2022). Agriculture 4.0 also contributed to the increase in farm mechanization level of the country to 2.679 horsepower per hectare (...

It is argued that the resurgence of interest in Regenerative Agriculture represents a re-framing of what have been considered to be two contrasting approaches to agricultural futures, namely agroecology and sustainable intensification, under the same banner.

The agricultural sector in Indonesia plays a strategic role in both economic development and employment. However, this sector has problems, especially concerning its declining workforce and aging workers. This is largely associated with the low attractiveness of the agricultural sector in absorbing labor. The younger age group prefers to seek non-agricultural employment by migrating to urban areas. This paper aims to analyze the youth mobility, job choice and the implications for agricultural workers. The data for analysis are data from the Indonesian National Labor Force Survey, 2019, by the ...

An overview of the role of beneficial microbes in sustainable agriculture, microbiome engineering, translation of this technology to the field, and the main approaches used by laboratories worldwide to study the plant–soil microbiome are presented.

Agricultural intensification is a highly specialized agri-food system that has contributed to raising food production worldwide due to progress in agricultural machinery and technologies, the use of improved cultivars, and external inputs such as fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides [...]