Precision Farming at the Service of Transition: How to Reduce Drastically and Effectively Agrochemicals Use in Farms? Enhancing Smart and Sustainable Farming Systems
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 563
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop protection; climate change; sustainable agriculture; crop modelling; field experiment design
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Interests: interdisciplinary sciences; biophysical modelling; food security; environmental sustainability; remote sensing applications in agriculture; data analytics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I hereby invite you to contribute to this Special Issue titled " Precision farming at the service of transition: how to reduce drastically and effectively agrochemicals use in farms?
Enhancing smart and sustainable farming systems" in the MPDI journal Agronomy.
Modern agriculture faces a number of major challenges, including the need to substantially increase agricultural production by at least 50% by 2050 to feed the growing world population, while preserving the environment. That is, feeding present generations without compromising the future. Given the development of increasingly virulent strains of plant diseases and the resistance to agrochemicals of some of these plant diseases, it is crucial to develop integrated plant-protection strategies for effective and timely phytosanitary treatments to achieve sustainable and profitable farming activities.
"Precision farming at the service of transition" thus aims to promote and encourage scientific debates and the sharing of experiences around various themes, including recent scientific and technological research in precision agriculture, the challenges in adopting precision agriculture technologies, the use and valuation of increasingly diverse agricultural data in a digital world, the challenges linked to a rapid transition towards sustainable digital/precision agriculture, etc. Without a doubt, these subjects will make it possible to “take the pulse” of the participants on these current issues in real time, and promote a sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture under a changing climate.
This Special Issue invites high-quality and innovative scientific research articles or reviews papers describing cutting-edge research on precision farming at the service of transition to support the adoption of efficacious and environmentally friendly strategies to control plant disease in agricultural crops.
Dr. El Jarroudi Moussa
Dr. Louis Kouadio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- precision farming
- changing climate
- crop protection
- foliar fungal disease
- plant disease risk
- plant disease management
- preventive fungicide application
- food security
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