Web-based spatial decision support system for precision agriculture: A tool for delineating dynamic management unit zones (MUZs) by Simone Lanucara, Salvatore Praticò, Giovanni Pioggia, Salvatore Di Fazio, Giuseppe Modica

“…MUZs are the sub-division of fields featuring an inter-zonal variation delineated by agronomists for on-field PA operations. To develop MUZs, three factors typically need to be considered: input multi-dimensional data, procedures to process the information, and the optimal number of zones a field should be divided into. …”
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Improvement in Land Cover and Crop Classification based on Temporal Features Learning from Sentinel-2 Data Using Recurrent-Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) by Vittorio Mazzia, Aleem Khaliq, Marcello Chiaberge

“…Understanding the use of current land cover, along with monitoring change over time, is vital for agronomists and agricultural agencies responsible for land management. …”
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Assessing the condition and capability of soils in cocoa districts of Ghana using geovisualization by Eric Kofi Doe, Emmanuel Morgan Attua, Jerome Agbesi Dogbatse, Benedicta Yayra Fosu-Mensah

“…Farmers, agricultural extension workers, soil scientists, agronomists, policymakers like COCOBOD and development practitioners may use these findings as a guide for restoring cocoa soils.…”
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Potential Use of Insecticides and Mineral Oils for the Control of Transmission of Major Aphid-Transmitted Potato Viruses by Drago Milošević, Svetomir Stamenković, Pantelija Perić

“…Under these conditions, seed potatoproduction is hindered due to a high infection pressure of potato virus Y which spreads farmore rapidly compared to leaf roll virus, virus S and other viruses hosted by this plant species.This study tended to clarify a frequent dilemma regarding the use of insecticides in preventingthe infection of healthy plants with potato virus Y and leaf roll virus, given the oraland written recommendations from pesticide manufacturers, agronomists and scientistsin the field of crop protection arising from a logical conclusion that aphid vector controlresults in virus transmission control.The present findings, which are in agreement with reports of authors from other countries,show that the use of insecticides is ineffective in preventing potato virus Y which isnonpersistently transmitted by aphids from an external source of infection.However, insecticides can exhibit efficacy in preventing potato virus Y transmissionfrom infected plants to healthy plants within a crop, which can have an overall positiveeffect only if seed potato is grown in areas that have no external source of infection.The present results and those of other authors show that insecticides are effective inpreventing the infection of healthy plants with persistently transmitted leaf roll virus.Mineral oils provide effective control of potato virus Y by preventing the infection ofpotato plants with the virus. …”
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Reduction of the mangosteen tree (Garcinia mangostana L.) production cycle: effect of soil type and fertilisers by Jean Florent Haba, Nakpalo Silué, Ardjouma Dembele, Elichama Désirée Phaceli, Jean Kouao Koffi, Ange Kouakou Letto

“…Abstract Background Shortening the vegetative cycle of slow-growing crops is a significant challenge for breeders, agronomists, and growers. This reduction is particularly crucial for the mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) as it would make it easier for farmers to adopt this crop. …”
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Segmentation of roots in soil with U-Net by Abraham George Smith, Jens Petersen, Raghavendra Selvan, Camilla Ruø Rasmussen

“…Rhizotrons allow visual inspection of root growth through transparent surfaces. Agronomists currently manually label photographs of roots obtained from rhizotrons using a line-intersect method to obtain root length density and rooting depth measurements which are essential for their experiments. …”
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Leveraging digital agriculture for on-farm testing of technologies by Laila A. Puntel, Laura J. Thompson, Taro Mieno

“…The proposed framework allowed researchers, agronomists, and farmers to carry out on-farm precision N experimentation using novel technologies to quantify benefits of digital ag technology and promote adoption.…”
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Science du sol et développement agricole au Rwanda : état de la question (synthèse bibliographique) by Rushemuka, PN., Bock, L., Mowo, JG.

“…In practice however, the CPR remains underutilized, mainly because of its inaccessibility to its potential users (e.g. policy makers, soil fertility experts, agronomists and extensionists). For its effective use, the following is recommended: Rwandan soil scientists need to increase policy makers' awareness about the usefulness of this soil map; agricultural research needs to adapt from the conventional model to a truly participatory and integrated approach; the CPR legend should be elucidated by providing information on the land units in which soils occur and by bridging Soil Taxonomy with the farmers' soil nomenclature; regional soil reference systems should be established that allow linking soil types with the fertility status of arable land and crop yields. …”
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La villa romana de Santa Lucía (Aguilafuente, Segovia) : aproximación a su estudio treinta años después de su excavación by Isaac Sastre de Diego

“…The characteristics of their physical surroundings turn it in a practical model of the type of villae with which the classic agronomists theorized. In spite of the valuable works of R. …”
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Indigenous Food Systems and Climate Change: Impacts of climatic shifts on the production and processing of native and traditional crops in the Bolivian Andes by Alder eKeleman Saxena, Ximena eCadima Fuentes, Rhimer eGonzales Herbas, Debbie L. Humphries

“…Data was collected between 2012 and 2014 via mixed-methods, qualitative fieldwork, including participatory workshops with female farmers and food preparers, semi-structured interviews with local agronomists, and participant observation. Drawing from this data, the paper describes a) the observed impacts of changing weather patterns on agricultural production in the municipality of Colomi, Bolivia; and b) the role of local environmental resources and conditions, including clean running water, temperature, and humidity, in the household processing techniques used to conserve and sometimes detoxify native crop and animal species, including potato (Solanum sp.), oca (Oxalis tuberosa), tarwi (Lupinus mutabilis), papalisa (Ullucus tuberosus), and charkay (llama or sheep jerky). …”
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WHEAT EAR DETECTION IN PLOTS BY SEGMENTING MOBILE LASER SCANNER DATA by K. Velumani, S. Oude Elberink, M. Y. Yang, F. Baret

“…Wheat plant traits such as crop height, biomass fractions and plant population are of interest to agronomists and biologists for the assessment of a genotype's performance in the environment. …”
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Cognitive Soil Digital Twin for Monitoring the Soil Ecosystem: A Conceptual Framework by Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis, Nikiforos Samarinas, Eleni Kalopesa, George C. Zalidis

“…Beyond academic circles, the digital twin’s utility extends to a broad spectrum of stakeholders across the entire quadruple helix, encompassing farmers and agronomists, soil researchers, the agro-industry, and policy-makers. …”
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Design, Development and Evaluation of an Intelligent Animal Repelling System for Crop Protection Based on Embedded Edge-AI by Davide Adami, Mike O. Ojo, Stefano Giordano

“…Best practices are also discussed and lastly, this article discusses how the combined technology used can help farmers and agronomists in their decision making and management process.…”
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Harnessing the Power of Transfer Learning in Sunflower Disease Detection: A Comparative Study by Yonis Gulzar, Zeynep Ünal, Hakan Aktaş, Mohammad Shuaib Mir

“…The results highlight the potential of deep learning in early disease detection and classification, which can assist farmers and agronomists in implementing timely disease management strategies. …”
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iPASTIC: An online toolkit to estimate plant abiotic stress indices by Alireza Pour‐Aboughadareh, Mohsen Yousefian, Hoda Moradkhani, Mohammad Moghaddam Vahed, Peter Poczai, Kadambot H. M. Siddique

“…Conclusions iPASTIC can be widely used in agronomy and plant breeding programs as a user‐friendly interface for agronomists and breeders dealing with large volumes of data. …”
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UAV-Based Hyperspectral Monitoring Using Push-Broom and Snapshot Sensors: A Multisite Assessment for Precision Viticulture Applications by Joaquim J. Sousa, Piero Toscano, Alessandro Matese, Salvatore Filippo Di Gennaro, Andrea Berton, Matteo Gatti, Stefano Poni, Luís Pádua, Jonáš Hruška, Raul Morais, Emanuel Peres

“…The aim is to provide researchers, agronomists, winegrowers and UAV pilots with dependable data collection protocols and methods, enabling them to achieve faster processing techniques and helping to integrate multiple data sources. …”
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Comparative analysis of the content of salicylic acid in biotechnological cotton genotypes under some kinds of abiotic stress by Nodira Rakhmatova, Azadakhan Imamkhodjayeva, Vyacheslav Uzbekov, Khurshida Ubaydullaeva, Dilobar Zuparova

“…The study materials are of practical value to microbiologists, geneticists, and agronomists. The investigation of the biotechnological features of the plant genotype plays an important role in understanding plant adaptation to natural conditions caused by certain types of abiotic stress. …”
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Placing Soil Information in the Hands of Farmers by Visser Saskia, Hekman Henri, van Beek Christy, van Helvoort Angelique

“…AgroCares has developed two services, i.e., the Scanner and the Lab-in-a-box, that place the knowledge of soil analysts and agronomists in the hands of the farmer in a quick, easy and affordable way. …”
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A dataset of the chemical composition and near-infrared spectroscopy measurements of raw cattle, poultry and pig manure by Thierry Morvan, Fabien Gogé, Thierry Oboyet, Odile Carel, Youssef Fouad

“…Because the dataset covers a wide range of variability in the composition of solid animal manure, these data are of great interest to chemometrics experts and agronomists in search of references on the fertilizing value of products.…”
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Agronomía, agrónomos y estado en Brasil: organizaciones y disputas (1930-1961) by Sonia Regina De Mendonça

“…Therefore, while the leaders of SBA - simultaneously graduates for the National School of Agronomy, employees of the Ministry of the Agriculture and directors of the National Society of Agriculture - they defended the state incentive to the productive diversification and the standardization of new agricultural products returned to the export, the agronomists from SPA, more directly articulated to the great industrial bourgeoisie from São Paulo, independently of its school origin, they proposed clearly, already in the decade of 1940, the industrialization of the Brazilian agriculture, by means of the propaganda of agricultural industrial input and of the implementation of the industry of tractors in the country.…”
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