The current efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals combat and eradicate hunger have led different specialized sectors of society launch into search for paths that lead it. In this sense, research, development, innovation (R + D i) approach has generated various optimized methods obtain greatest possible benefits, through important contributions. objective document is show advances...

There is growing public concern about pesticides’ non-target effects on humans and other organisms, and many pests have evolved resistance to some of the most commonly-used pesticides. Together, these factors have led to increasing interest in non-chemical, ecologicallysound ways to manage pests [1]. One pest-management alternative is the diversification of agricultural fields by establishing “...

A series of 10 aircraft flights was conducted over agricultural fields to evaluate relationships between observed surface soil moisture and soft moisture predicted using passive microwave sensor observations. An a pr/or/ approach was used to predict values of surface soil moisture for three types of fields: tilled corn, no-till corn with soybean stubble, and idle fields with corn stubble. Accep...

Today, that the collection of biological data has been increasing at explosive rate, the right processing of these data is something more than a necessity. Fisher’s work (1925) in conjunction with the vast increases in computer power that were implemented after the 1960s, have made possible much more efficient and exciting methods of data analysis (Curnow, 1984), thus opening the “bag of Aeolus...

Dielectric properties of materials are defined, and the major factors that influence these properties of agricultural and food materials, namely, frequency of the applied radiofrequency or microwave electric fields, and water content, temperature, and density of the materials, are discussed on the basis of fundamental concepts. The dependence of measured dielectric properties on these factors i...

A very accurate vehicle guidance is required in numerous agricultural applications, as seeding, spraying, row cropping, . . . Accuracy in vehicle localization can be obtained in realtime from a RTK GPS sensor. Several control laws, relying on this sensor, have been previously designed and provide satisfactory results as long as vehicles do not slide. However, sliding has to occur in agricultura...

Soil serves as a reservoir for Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, fungi that produce carcinogenic aflatoxins in agricultural commodities. Populations in soil are genetically diverse and individual genotypes show a clustered distribution pattern within fields. Surveys over large geographic regions suggest that climate and crop composition influence species density and aflatoxin-producing pot...