Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural engineering involves the application of engineering principles to agricultural production and processing. It encompasses the design and development of machinery, equipment, and structures used in farming, as well as the management of natural resources and environmental protection. This field plays a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency, sustainability, and productivity of agricultural practices.
7 Key excerpts on "Agricultural Engineering"
eBook - ePubSoil Salinity Management in Agriculture
Technological Advances and Applications
- S. K. Gupta, Megh R. Goyal, S. K. Gupta, Megh R. Goyal(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Apple Academic Press(Publisher)
...“ABE is the discipline of engineering that applies engineering principles and the fundamental concepts of biology to agricultural and biological systems and tools, for the safe, efficient and environmentally sensitive production, processing, and management of agricultural, biological, food, and natural resources systems,” according to http://asabe.org. “AE is the branch of engineering involved with the design of farm machinery, with soil management, land development, and mechanization and automation of livestock farming, and with the efficient planting, harvesting, storage, and processing of farm commodities,” the definition by http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agricultural+engineering. “AE incorporates many science disciplines and technology practices to the efficient production and processing of food, feed, fiber and fuels. It involves disciplines like mechanical engineering (agricultural machinery and automated machine systems), soil science (crop nutrient and fertilization, etc.), environmental sciences (drainage and irrigation), plant biology (seeding and plant growth management), animal science (farm animals and housing) etc.,” as indicated by http://www.ABE.ncsu.edu/academic/agricultural-engineering.php. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering, “Biological Engineering (BE) is a science-based discipline that applies concepts and methods of biology to solve real-world problems related to the life sciences or the application thereof...
eBook - ePubFood Process Engineering
Emerging Trends in Research and Their Applications
- Murlidhar Meghwal, Megh R. Goyal, Murlidhar Meghwal, Megh R. Goyal(Authors)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Apple Academic Press(Publisher)
...“ABE is the discipline of engineering that applies engineering principles and the fundamental concepts of biology to agricultural and biological systems and tools, for the safe, efficient and environmentally sensitive production, processing, and management of agricultural, biological, food, and natural resources systems,” according to http://asabe.org. “AE is the branch of engineering involved with the design of farm machinery, with soil management, land development, and mechanization and automation of livestock farming, and with the efficient planting, harvesting, storage, and processing of farm commodities,” the definition by http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agricultural+engineering. “AE incorporates many science disciplines and technology practices to the efficient production and processing of food, feed, fiber and fuels. It involves disciplines like mechanical engineering (agricultural machinery and automated machine systems), soil science (crop nutrient and fertilization, etc.), environmental sciences (drainage and irrigation), plant biology (seeding and plant growth management), animal science (farm animals and housing) etc.,” as indicated by http://www.ABE.ncsu.edu/academic/agricultural-engineering.php. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering : “BE (Biological engineering) is a science-based discipline that applies concepts and methods of biology to solve real-world problems related to the life sciences or the application thereof...
eBook - ePubDairy Engineering
Advanced Technologies and Their Applications
- Murlidhar Meghwal, Megh R. Goyal, Rupesh S. Chavan, Murlidhar Meghwal, Megh R. Goyal, Rupesh S. Chavan(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Apple Academic Press(Publisher)
...“ABE is the discipline of engineering that applies engineering principles and the fundamental concepts of biology to agricultural and biological systems and tools, for the safe, efficient and environmentally sensitive production, processing, and management of agricultural, biological, food, and natural resources systems,” according to asabe.org. “AE is the branch of engineering involved with the design of farm machinery, with soil management, land development, and mechanization and automation of livestock farming, and with the efficient planting, harvesting, storage, and processing of farm commodities,” definition by: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agricultural+engineering. “AE incorporates many science disciplines and technology practices to the efficient production and processing of food, feed, fiber and fuels. It involves disciplines like mechanical engineering (agricultural machinery and automated machine systems), soil science (crop nutrient and fertilization, etc.), environmental sciences (drainage and irrigation), plant biology (seeding and plant growth management), animal science (farm animals and housing) etc.,” by: http://www.ABE.ncsu.edu/academic/agricultural-engineering.php. “According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering : “BE (Biological Engineering) is a science-based discipline that applies concepts and methods of biology to solve real-world problems related to the life sciences or the application thereof...
eBook - ePubProcessing of Fruits and Vegetables
From Farm to Fork
- Khursheed Alam Khan, Megh R. Goyal, Abhimannyu A Kalne, Khursheed Alam Khan, Megh R. Goyal, Abhimannyu A Kalne(Authors)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Apple Academic Press(Publisher)
...Biological engineering applies engineering practices to problems and opportunities presented by living things and the natural environment in agriculture. ABE embraces a variety of following specialty areas (asabe. org): Aquacultural Engineering, Biological Engineering, Energy, Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Food and Process Engineering, Forest Engineering, Information & Electrical Technologies Engineering, Natural Resources, Nursery and Greenhouse Engineering, Safety and Health, and Structures and Environment. For this book series, we welcome chapters on the following specialty areas (but not limited to): 1. Academia to industry to end-user loop in Agricultural Engineering 2. Agricultural mechanization 3. Aquaculture engineering 4. Biological engineering in agriculture 5. Biotechnology applications in Agricultural Engineering 6. Energy source engineering 7. Food and bioprocess engineering 8. Forest engineering 9. Hill land agriculture 10. Human factors in engineering 11. Information and electrical technologies 12. Irrigation and drainage engineering 13. Nanotechnology applications in Agricultural Engineering 14. Natural resources engineering 15. Nursery and greenhouse engineering 16. Potential of phytochemicals from agricultural and wild plants for human health 17. Power systems and machinery design 18. GPS. and remote sensing potential in Agricultural Engineering 19. Robot engineering in agriculture 20. Simulation and computer modeling 21. Smart engineering applications in agriculture 22. Soil and water engineering 23. Structures and environment engineering 24. Waste management and recycling 25. Any other focus area For more information on this series, readers may contact: Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE Book Series Senior Editor-in-Chief Innovations in Agricultural and Biological Engineering [email protected]...
eBook - ePubAgribusiness
An International Perspective
- Julian Roche(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...CHAPTER 4 The role of technology Introduction: a difference in approach I imagine that most readers of this book are interested in the business of agriculture, in one or more capacities of regulator, lender, investor, supplier or adviser. It is always necessary to decide, even for scientists and certainly for business people, what research is needed, and for what purpose, and then to select only the latest and/or most relevant research. Agricultural scientists are often, it must be recognised, not especially well versed or even interested in economics or finance. Even basic concepts such as cost-benefit analysis are often alien, whilst on the other hand scientific jargon is rife. The best way to approach the dichotomy between their vast experience, dedication, research and achievements, and their oft-evidenced disinterest in finance, is to regard agricultural research as a data resource for financial decision-making. Certainly, the application of agricultural science has major financial impacts. This chapter has been written as an introduction to agtech and agricultural science with that aim in mind. Principles of agricultural science and technology What is agricultural science? Agricultural research – the Australian government tells us – is not an actual scientific discipline in its own right. Rather, it is a broad term to describe the application to agriculture of many different scientific disciplines and endeavours, combined with the objective of achieving improvements in agricultural output, sustainability and, sometimes, profitability. Primarily, but perhaps regrettably, agricultural science integrates scientific disciplines in which research may have been carried out without an explicit end-point application. Traditionally this has involved all of botany, zoology and soil science including, inter alia, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, plant physiology, microbiology, soil nutrition and statistics...
eBook - ePub- Dionysis Bochtis, Claus Aage Gron Sorensen, Dimitrios Kateris(Authors)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- Academic Press(Publisher)
...In this period, in parallel, the scientific area of energy in agriculture, in terms of energy consumption and the potential of producing renewable sources of energy originated from agriculture, was also related to the different levels of mechanization and the degree of the applied automation. On this basis, efforts were made to estimate the net energy equilibrium (the rate of output and energy flow in production) in various crops including crops for producing energy, food, and feed, taking into account direct (e.g. fuel consumption) and indirect (e.g. embodied energy of machines and materials such as chemicals and fertilizers) energy inputs. In the 1980s the scientific area of computers and computational agricultural management, in terms of data analysis and decision making, became a new focus. That was the result of the increasing levels of mechanization and the appearance of automation-based applications as embedded systems of agricultural machines. That was the beginning of a new management system in agriculture, the well-known system of Precision Agriculture. 1.1.3. Information and Communication Technologies and Automation Phase (1990–Today) From 1990 and for two decades agriculture experience and extensive transformation due to advances in genetics that provided new plant varieties with higher yield potential and higher resistance to diseases. The mechanical and automation technologies had to follow these advances and resulted in very capital intensive assets in order to deal with the large-scale production requirements and the new specialized types of farming. To this end, in agricultural production involved into large and specialized units, in terms of machinery and farming land. These expensive, in terms of investment, and complex, in terms of operations execution, systems required more intensive management tasks...
eBook - ePub- Rattan Lal(Author)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
...Precision Agriculture: Engineering Aspects Joel T. Walker Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Reza Ehsani Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Matthew O. Sullivan Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Abstract It seems possible that all agricultural operations could be monitored and recorded, linked by digital transmissions to databases containing weather, remote sensing, and historical data, and controlled through a general model of the crop’s predicted response to specific inputs. Such a system may not only control specific agricultural operations but also be involved in scheduling, ordering seed, fertilizer, and supplies, providing records to regulating agencies, and feeding valuable information back into the research system for further refinement of the control model. INTRODUCTION Information technology is playing an increasingly important role in agricultural production systems of all sizes, commodities, and management philosophies. Precision agriculture [ 1, 2, 3 ] or site-specific management is an information-based management technique that has the potential to improve profitability [ 4 ] and reduce the environmental impact [ 5 ] of crop production. It also has the potential to improve the quality and nutrient content of the product. Precision agriculture, rather than the “one-size-fits-all” management strategy, provides for differential treatment of selected areas of a production field, called management zones, based upon the expectation of increased yield, profit, or some other agronomic goal. [ 6, 7, 8, 9 ] Management zones may be selected for differential treatment based upon various documented differences such as soil type, soil fertility or pH, yield history, presence of weeds, insects, or diseases, or other measures for which a differential treatment helps the producer achieve a selected goal...
