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High Speed Crop and Weed Identification in Lettuce Fields for Precision Weeding [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Precision weeding can significantly reduce or even eliminate the use of herbicides in farming. To achieve high-precision, individual targeting of weeds, high-speed, low-cost plant identification is essential.
Lydia Elstone +5 more
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Design and performance evaluation of a spiral bar precision weeding mechanism for corn fields [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis paper focuses on addressing the limitations of existing mechanical weeding methods for corn plants by introducing a spiral tendon-type precision weeding device specifically designed for corn fields.
Wenze Hu +7 more
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Design and Experiment of Row-Controlled Fertilizing–Weeding Machine for Rice Cultivation
Agriculture, 2021 Current approaches to topdressing and weeding operations for rice cultivation present several disadvantages, such as poor precision, low efficiency, serious environmental pollution, and so on.
Yangjie Shi +6 more
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A SPH-YOLOv5x-Based Automatic System for Intra-Row Weed Control in Lettuce
Agronomy, 2023 Weeds have a serious impact on lettuce cultivation. Weeding is an efficient way to increase lettuce yields. Due to the increasing costs of labor and the harm of herbicides to the environment, there is an increasing need to develop a mechanical weeding ...
Bo Jiang +3 more
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Machines, 2023 Weed management has become a highly labor-intensive activity, which is the reason for decreased yields and high costs. Moreover, the lack of skilled labor and weed-resistant herbicides severely impact the agriculture sector and food production, hence ...
Azmat Hussain +6 more
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Design and operation of a Peucedani Radix weeding device based on YOLOV5 and a parallel manipulator
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 To avoid excessive use of herbicides in the weeding operations of Peucedani Radix, a common Chinese herb, a precision seedling avoidance and weeding agricultural robot was designed for the targeted spraying of herbicides.
Xuechen Zhang +8 more
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Laser Weeding Technology in Cropping Systems: A Comprehensive Review
AgronomyWeed infestations pose significant challenges to global crop production, demanding effective and sustainable weed control methods. Traditional approaches, such as chemical herbicides, mechanical tillage, and plastic mulches, are not only associated with ...
Muhammad Usama Yaseen, John M. Long
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Engineering ProceedingsGrowing interest in organic food, along with European regulations limiting chemical usage, and the declining effectiveness of herbicides due to weed resistance, are all contributing to the growing trend towards mechanical weeding.
Ioannis Glykos +2 more
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Evaluation of Diode Laser Treatments to Manage Weeds in Row Crops
Agronomy, 2022 Herbicides have been the primary weed management practice in agriculture for decades. However, due to their effects on the environment in addition to weeds becoming resistant, alternative approaches to weed control are critical.
Canicius Mwitta +2 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2021 The field experiment was conducted during kharif 2019 at ICAR-CURRS-NRRI at Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. The experiment was conducted to evaluate precision nutrient management and weed management practices for achieving minimum weed menace and maximum crop ...
SMRUTI RANJAN PADHAN +4 more
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