Recent Trends and Advances in Agricultural Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Agricultural engineering combines engineering expertise, a social conscience, and knowledge of living systems to address the complex issues facing our planet. To assure food security, reduce poverty, and promote sustainability, next-generation agriculture needs technological development; Agricultural engineering has the potential to significantly improve the sustainability of agriculture globally in all application areas, from the creation and effective usage of cutting-edge technology to the most recent implementation of digital farming solutions. It is directly associated with farm mechanization; automation and robotics; efficient irrigation systems; precision/conservation agriculture; farm energy systems; post-harvest storage/processing and value addition; remote sensing and geographical studies. A thorough understanding of the most modern agricultural equipment, technologies, and engineering solutions used in the farming processes is necessary to minimize any undesirable effects of field applications and increase crop output and sustainability. The objective of this special issue is to explore the current state and innovation in the agricultural and biosystemes engineeing and identify future trends and transformations, and, devoted exclusively to the publication of original papers, review articles and frontiers articles on biological and technological research in agriclture.

This Special Issue focuses, but is not limited, to the agricultural engineering in the following areas:

• Smart agricultural machinery, equipment, and structures;
• Soil tillage and traction;
• Agricultural resource management for efficiency and sustainability;
• Agro-food waste management;
• Biofuels and renewable energies;
• Computers, Electronics and ICT applications in agriculture;
• AI/ML applications in agriculture;
• Precision agriculture;
• Proximal sensing and GIS in agriculture;
• Automation in food and agriculture;
• Postharvest Technology & Management;
• Food handling & storage;
• Advances in Agro-processing
• Water management 

Dr. Pankaj B. Pathare
Dr. Peeyush Soni
Guest Editors

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• agricultural mechanization
• postharvest
• precision agriculture
• imaging and machine learning
• soil management
• remote sensing
• sensors in food safety
• AI in agriculture