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Application of Machine Learning in Agriculture with Some Examples
Published in Rashmi Priyadarshini, R M Mehra, Amit Sehgal, Prabhu Jyot Singh, Artificial Intelligence, 2023
Soil Management: This plays a key role in yield efficiency, ecological stability and human health, both directly and indirectly. Soil is a diverse natural source, having complex processes and fuzzy mechanisms in which the temperature of soil also plays an important function in the precise investigation of climatic variations of an area and its ecological behavior. Machine learning algorithms play a significant role in analyzing the soil temperature and dampness so as to understand the dynamics of ecosystems and its impact on agriculture. Goap et al. [15] have introduced the new technique back propagation networks, which gives better results for finding the beneficial properties of soil, rather than using the traditional method called multivariate regression model. The working rule of back propagation networks is to train a particular crop which has certain properties.
Geomorphic Features Associated with Erosion
Published in Ramesh P. Singh, Darius Bartlett, Natural Hazards, 2018
Niki Evelpidou, Isidoros Kampolis, Anna Karkani
Generally, soil management preserves soil fertility and structure. Fertile land is associated with high crop yields and good plant cover, resulting in the reduction of raindrop impact, runoff and wind erosion (Morgan 2005). For this reason, mechanical disturbance is applied on soils. This measure enhances superficial coarseness that in turn reduces runoff and the soil’s vulnerability to erosion. Additionally, the produced coarseness creates cavities on the soil where water stagnates and therefore produces the reduction of raindrop erodibility and captures the transported sediment. Moreover, the mechanical soil disturbance mixes the superficial plant remains with those buried underground, reducing runoff erosion even further, since this way the infiltration rate increases.
Renewable Energy Production from Energy Crops
Published in Vladimir Strezov, Hossain M. Anawar, Renewable Energy Systems from Biomass, 2018
Hossain M. Anawar, Vladimir Strezov
The appropriate soil management and cropping system, including intercropping, can reduce soil erosion but increase soil fertility, soil organic carbon (SOC) content, and soil health, benefiting the crop productivity. This management system can increase the land productivity by land cover and diversify the crops. Continuous monocropping on degraded land can reduce the SOC due to intensive soil tillage (Lal, 2006). Intercropping of short-rotation woody energy plants into the cropping system can improve the SOC content (Blanco-Canqui, 2010).
Identification of erosion-prone areas using modified morphometric prioritization method and sediment production rate: a remote sensing and GIS approach
Published in Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 2019
Ajaykumar K. Kadam, Tasadoq H. Jaweed, Sanjay S. Kale, Bhavana N. Umrikar, Rabindranath N. Sankhua
Soil erosion is broadly defined as the accelerated removal of topmost layer through water, wind or tillage from fragile skin of the earth. Erosion through water mainly occurs when overland flow entrains soil particles detached by raindrop impact, weathering process or surface runoff, often leading to clearly defined channels such as rills or gullies. The heavy loss of topsoil through erosion is recognized as an utmost threat to the world’s soil resources. It is a fearful fact that the soil in many areas is eroding much at faster rate than be replaced by soil formation processes. The large difference between erosion and soil formation rates has compelled to consider this resource as non-renewable. To address this issue the opening statement of the preamble of the revised World Soil Charter states that ‘Soils are fundamental to life on Earth but human pressures on soil resources are reaching critical limits’. Careful soil management is an essential element of sustainable agriculture which provides a valuable lever for climate regulation and a pathway for safeguarding ecosystem services and biodiversity (FAO and ITPS 2015).
Wicked problems facing integrated water quality management: what IWRA experts tell us
Published in Water International, 2018
James E. Nickum, Henning Bjornlund, Raya Marina Stephan
The main function of the soil is to continue to provide sufficient food for the world’s growing population. Several factors affect the ability of soil to accomplish its function. These include but are not limited to proper soil management practices and land use such as tillage, soil additives and cropping system; and soil and water management practices such as irrigation using fresh and alternative sources of brackish, grey and wastewaters. So the question becomes: how can we evaluate the impacts on soil function of these factors in order to identify the best design and mitigation measures? To answer this question, we need to appreciate that the unique organization of the soil medium makes it possible for soil to perform several functions, and we must adequately and accurately represent that organization in modelling approaches.
Diffusion of circular economy practices in the UK wheat food supply chain
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2022
Alvaro Augusto Dossa, Andrew Gough, Luciano Batista, Kathleen Mortimer
Alternatively, some activities undertaken by farmers are not present in the CE literature reviewed. Crop rotation and soil management are two forms of operation that can reduce both risk and waste (of water, agrochemicals, operations and biomatter) and the presence of pests (weed, insects, diseases). Neither is commonly discussed in the CE-literature regarding food supply chains. Grain storage practices as a form of reducing waste and filters in the mills to reduce air particles for the flour and that is later repurposed as animal feed, also fall within the CE paradigm but are not commonly discussed in the CE literature.