This book discusses major issues in the field of agriculture: crop diseases, lack of storage management, pesticide control, weed management, lack of irrigation and water management and their effective resolution via automation, including IoT, wireless communications, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning. It further discusses the sterile insect technique, which is a replacement of conventional pesticide and fertilizer techniques. Hydroponics and vertical farming, two of the top-ranked agricultural engineering accomplishments of the past century, are also discussed.

Features:

• Offers in-depth insights regarding the fundamentals of technologies associated with the agriculture sector
• Synthesizes earlier works of researchers and inventors in this field
• Sheds light on the challenges and problems of supply and demand worldwide
• Encourages the reader to innovate and ideate upon those issues
• Analyses the wide array of services provided by companies worldwide and discusses recent breakthroughs in agriculture automation

This book is aimed at the work of many researchers to obtain a concise overview of the current implementation of automation in agriculture and derive important insight into its upcoming challenges.