[EN] The sustainability of agricultural production in the twenty-first century, both in industrialized and developing countries, benefits from the integration of farm management with information technology such that ...

[EN] The information that crops offer is turned into profitable decisions only when efficiently managed. Current advances in data management are making Smart Farming grow exponentially as data have become the key element ...

[EN] Aim of study: This paper presents a mathematical modeling approach to redesign the reels of chickpea harvesters for harvest efficiency. Area of study: A prototype chickpea harvester was designed and evaluated on the ...

[EN] There is a growing need to provide support and applicable tools to farmers and the agro-industry in order to move from their traditional water status monitoring and high-water-demand cropping and irrigation practices ...

[EN] An innovative methodology to generate vegetative vigor maps in vineyards (Vitis vinifera L.) has been developed and pre-validated. The architecture proposed implements a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and a ...

[EN] Very often, the root of problems found to produce food sustainably, as well as the origin of many environmental issues, derive from making decisions with unreliable or inexistent data. Datadriven agriculture has emerged ...

[EN] Spraying systems to protect crops against pests are still necessary to maintain food production at the rates demanded by the current population. However, today, it is crucial to use precision agriculture to reduce the ...