Focus and Scope

Scope and Topics

AFS welcomes original research articles, conceptual models, and systematic literature reviews across a broad spectrum of agricultural sciences, including but not limited to:

  • Agronomy & Sustainable Crop Production: Crop physiology, stress tolerance, cropping systems design, seed science, post-harvest technology, and organic agriculture.

  • Soil Health, Water Management, & Agro-Ecology: Soil fertility, soil microbiology, precision irrigation, nutrient cycling, land degradation recovery, and ecological farming systems.

  • Smart Farming & Agricultural Engineering: Precision agriculture, farm automation, remote sensing, AI applications in farming, agricultural machinery, and protected cultivation structures.

  • Crop Protection & Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Plant pathology, agricultural entomology, weed science, biological pest control, and molecular plant diagnostics.

  • Agricultural Economics, Food Value Chains, & Policy: Agribusiness management, rural development, food security policies, agricultural market dynamics, and sustainable farm economics.