Agricultural Structures and Mechanization / / José Pérez-Alonso.

• VerfasserIn: Pérez-Alonso, José,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 pages)

In our globalized world, the need to produce quality and safe food has increased exponentially in recent decades to meet the growing demands of the world population. This expectation is being met by acting at multiple levels, but mainly through the introduction of new technologies in the agricultural and agri-food sectors. In this context, agricultural, livestock, agro-industrial buildings, and agrarian infrastructure are being built on the basis of a sophisticated design that integrates environmental, landscape, and occupational safety, new construction materials, new facilities, and mechanization with state-of-the-art automatic systems, using calculation models and computer programs. It is necessary to promote research and dissemination of results in the field of mechanization and agricultural structures, specifically with regard to farm building and rural landscape, land and water use and environment, power and machinery, information systems and precision farming, processing and post-harvest technology and logistics, energy and non-food production technology, systems engineering and management, and fruit and vegetable cultivation systems. This Special Issue focuses on the role that mechanization and agricultural structures play in the production of high-quality food and continuously over time. For this reason, it publishes highly interdisciplinary quality studies from disparate research fields including agriculture, engineering design, calculation and modeling, landscaping, environmentalism, and even ergonomics and occupational risk prevention.

Table of Contents

About the Editor -- Preface to "Agricultural Structures and Mechanization" -- A Novel Semiautomatic Flesh Peeling and Seed Removing Mechanism for Dried Longan -- Longitudinal Axial Flow Rice Thresher Performance Optimization Using the Taguchi Technique -- Deviation Tolerance Performance Evaluation and Experiment of Picking End Effector for Famous Tea -- Structural Optimization and Performance Evaluation of Blocking Wheel-Type Screw Fertilizer Distributor -- Design, DEM Simulation, and Field Experiments of a Novel Precision Seeder for Dry Direct-Seeded Rice with Film Mulching -- Applications of Discrete Element Method in the Research of Agricultural Machinery: A Review -- of Mechanical and Intelligent Robotic Weed Control Methods on Energy Efficiency and Environment in Organic Sugar Beet Production -- Research Progress and Development of Mechanized Potato Planters: A Review -- Design and Experiment of Row-Controlled Fertilizing-Weeding Machine for Rice Cultivation -- Evaluation of the Effect of Different Hand-Held Sprayer Types on a Greenhouse Pepper Crop -- Equipment Performance, Costs and Constraints of Packaging and Transporting Rice Straw for Alternative Uses to Burning in the "Parc Natural l'Albufera de Valencia" (Spain) -- Current Knowledge and Future Directions for Improving Subsoiling Quality and Reducing Energy Consumption in Conservation Fields -- Development of Thermal Performance Metrics for Direct Gas-Fired Circulating Heaters -- Design and Experimental Research on Soil Covering Device with Linkage and Differential Adjustment of Potato Planter -- An Investigation of Pull-Out Force of Semi-Buried Lotus Roots after Hydraulic Scouring -- Experimental Evaluation of Rootstock Clamping Device for Inclined Inserted Grafting of Melons -- Study on the Distribution Pattern of Threshed Mixture by Drum-Shape Bar-Tooth Longitudinal Axial Flow Threshing and Separating Device -- Coupled Bionic Design Based on Primnoa Mouthpart to Improve the Performance of a Straw Returning Machine -- Optimization of the Process Parameters of an Air-Screen Cleaning System for Frozen Corn Based on the Response Surface Method -- Optimization of Structure Parameters of the Grouser Shoes for Adhesion Reduction under Black Soil -- Effect of Planting Distance on the Mechanical Harvesting of Hot Pepper -- Research on Loading Method of Tractor PTO Based on Dynamic Load Spectrum -- Optimization and Experiment of Straw Back-Throwing Device of No-Tillage Drill Using Multi-Objective QPSO Algorithm -- An Octopus-Inspired Bionic Flexible Gripper for Apple Grasping -- Dainius Steponaviˇcius, Kęstutis Romaneckas and Algirdas Jasinskas -- Variable Rate Seeding in Precision Agriculture: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives.