Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Rice cultivation always remains significant for food and livelihood security. The predictions
of increasing water deficiency under a changing climate and escalating labor shortages in …

Conventional agriculture is energy and carbon intensive. Single and double-crop basis
residue-mulching in zero-tilled crop-sequences may minimize carbon-footprint with …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the essential food sources for people, with rice farms
producing about 480 million tons of refined rice annually. In recent years, with the …

Maize is an important industrial crop where yield and quality enhancement both assume
greater importance. Clean production technologies like conservation agriculture and …

Introduction Deep learning (DL) is a core constituent for building an object detection system
and provides a variety of algorithms to be used in a variety of applications. In agriculture …

Surfactant is an important additive in pesticide application due to its antifoaming or foaming,
buffering or stabilization, sticking or wetting and toxicity properties. The molecular …

Polyphenols or plant phenolics are the secondary metabolites which have diverse functions
to mitigate various abiotic (heat, drought, cold, salt or heavy metal) and biotic (bacterial …

Conventionally tilled maize–wheat crop** system (MWCS) is an emerging cereal
production system in semi-arid region of south-Asia. This system involves excessive tillage …

Abstract Direct-seeded-cotton (DSC) leads to low crop and water productivity and energy-
output with higher carbon-footprints besides impairing system-intensification under …