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Mechanization of agricultural production in developing countries -- Developments in mechanization technology: controlled traffic farming -- Mechanization of vegetable production -- Development in energy generation technologies and alternative fuels for agriculture -- Applied machine vision in agriculture -- Advances in unmanned aerial systems and payload technologies for precision agriculture -- Agricultural robotics -- Development of precision livestock farming technologies -- Efficient use of energy in irrigation -- Improving surface irrigation -- Advanced tools for irrigation scheduling -- Minimizing evaporation loss from irrigation storages -- Advances in silage harvest operations -- Drying of agricultural crops -- Fruit and vegetable packhouse: technologies for assessing fruit quantity and quality -- Applications of crop modeling for agricultural machinery design -- Three-dimensional (3D) numerical modeling of morphogenesis in dehydrated fruits and vegetables.