Advances in Agricultural Machinery and Technologies

Content: Section I: Farm machinery and technologyMechanisation of agricultural production in developing countriesDevelopments in mechanisation technology: controlled traffic farmingMechanisation of vegetable productionDevelopment in energy generation technologies and alternative fuels for agricultureApplied machine vision in agriculture Advances in unmanned aerial systems and payload technologies for precision agricultureAgricultural roboticsDevelopment of precision livestock farming technologiesSection II: Water and irrigation engineering    9. Efficient use of energy in irrigation  10. Advances in surface irrigation technology  11. Advanced tools for irrigation scheduling  12. Minimising evaporation loss from irrigation storagesSection III: Harvesting and post-harvest technology   13. Advances in silage harvest operations  14. Drying of agricultural crops  15. The fruit and vegetable packhouse: technologies for assessing fruit quantity and qualitySection VI: Computer modelling  16. Crop modelling for agricultural machinery design  17. Three-dimensional numerical modelling of morphogenesis in dehydrated fruits and vegetables