Emerging Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Technologies, and Applications

Overview & Synopsis

Modern agricultural engineering technologies and applications are directly linked with the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). Technological advancement is essential to next-generation agriculture in order to ensure food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainability. Worldwide, it is directly associated with farm mechanization; automation and robotics; intelligent agriculture; irrigation systems; indoor farming and agriculture 4.0; precision/conservation agriculture; farm energy systems; post-harvest storage/processing and value addition; tillage and cultivation; food science and processing; spraying and harvesting machinery; animals and poultry farming; clean energy; societal aspects in agriculture; and the associated bio-/soil environment. Consequently, this reprint aims to explore the interdisciplinary nature of research on such agricultural engineering sciences, technologies, and applications from the viewpoint of the agricultural water–energy–food security nexus. Carbon-neutral development and clean-energy utilization are also associated with the UN-SDGs. Thus, it is important to develop energy-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions to ensure the agriculture sector achieves the UN SDGs. Consequently, this reprint brings together a wide range of emerging concepts on the agricultural engineering technologies and applications by which sustainable agriculture and associated UN SDGs can be ensured.