AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (AMA) (issn: 00845841) is a peer reviewed journal first published online after indexing scopus in 1982. AMA is published by Farm Machinery Industrial Research Corp and Shin-Norinsha Co. AMA publishes every subjects of general engineering and agricultural engineering.
WOS Indexed (2026)
07 May 2026 (Vol - 57 , Issue- 05 )
31 May 2026 (Vol - 57 , Issue 05 )
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AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (ISSN: 00845841) is a peer-reviewed journal. The journal covers Agricultural and Biological Sciences and all sort of engineering topic. the journal's scopes are in the following fields but not limited to:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication
Electronic Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Civil and architectural engineering
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Industrial and Commercial Design
Information Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Food Engineering
Design and experiment on soil continuous obstacle reduction equipment
Aiming at the current obstacles to the continuous cropping of facility vegetables and the serious damage of root-knot nematode diseases in the greenhouse vegetables. In this paper, a comprehensive equipment for reducing obstacles in continuous cropping of protected vegetable soil was developed. Through the theoretical calculation of soil subsoiling device, the component parameters of subsoiling device were obtained. Through the combination of empirical design and theoretical design, the design of key components of soil subsoiling device was determined, and the prototype trial production was completed. In order to deeply analyze the interaction process between blade and soil, a blade soil finite element model was established. The field test results of the prototype showed that the subsoiling depth of the machine was 390 ~ 410 mm, the average ditch depth was 395 mm, the stability coefficient of ditch depth was 98.3%, the average ditch width was 495 mm, and the consistency of ditch width was 98.5%, which basically meet the agronomic requirements. Through the comparison of soil compactness before and after operation, it could be found that after deep loosening, the soil was obviously loose, the soil hardness decreased, and the soil permeability was improved. The incidence rate of 40 days after transplanting was only 53.5%, which was 23.6% incidence rate compared with the reference area. At the same time, this paper could provide reference for the obstacle reduction of soil continuous cropping in orchards, mulberry orchards and tea orchards.
Environmental Impact of Mariculture in Coastal Waters of South-Central Vietnam
Mariculture provides an increasing seafood supply to a growing population. It also brings unintended consequences for the environment, resources and sustainable development. Based on observation of environmental changes in intensive mariculture of lobster cages in three south-central regions of Vietnam (namely Xuan Dai Bay, Van Phong Bay and Cam Ranh Bay, each region had two farming stations and one reference station), this paper aims to determine the impacts of mariculture to environmental quality over-period of April 2019 to May 2020. The results indicated no differences in water quality within the bay and among bays (p>0.05), but significant differences in sediment quality among stations (with and without mariculture) within the bays and among bays. The accumulation of observed parameters in substrate sediment at mariculture regions was higher than that without mariculture (p<0.05). Within the Cam Ranh Bay, the concentration of organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus of the sediment near the cages increased by a factor of 1.4 compared with the reference. Similar results were also observed in the case of Van Phong Bay and Xuan Dai Bay with different magnitudes. Additionally, based on changes in sulfide concentration of substrate sediment, the sediment quality in Van Phong Bay would be better than two other bays This evidence demonstrated that mariculture wastes accumulated in the substrate sediment, and over time they decomposed and created sub-toxins that degraded substrate and affected benthic biota in coastal waters.
Development of an Automatic Tree Coating Machine Based on the Cooperative Functioning of Multiple Nozzles
To improve the efficiency and quality of tree trunk liming, while reducing the labor intensity, this article outlines an automatic tree coating machine based on the cooperative functioning of multiple nozzles. This automatic tree coating machine detects the position, diameter, inclination and other parameters of the trunk through the use of an infrared distance meter and ultrasonic distance measuring instrument. This device can control the opening, closing angle, and moving speed of the spraying device through the servo motion mechanism achieving accurate spraying of trees. The results of tree spraying tests indicated that the average spray coverage rate can reach 97.73% in cases where tree trunks circumference are 50-80 cm and inclination angles are between 80-100°. The average spray coverage rate can reach 98.06% when tree trunk circumference is between 80-125 cm and inclination angles are 100-120°, the average spray coverage rate was 81.66% when tree trunks circumference are more than 125cm and inclination angles are 120-140°. The rate of spraying efficiency is 100-120 trees/hour, meeting the whitening requirements of trees and sufficient to replace manual operations.
Focus on larvae: A study of fine-grained image classification for agricultural pests.
More and more deep learning techniques have been used to classify pests in recent years, but most of the research objects involved in the existing work are adult pests. The identification of adult pests will delay the best time for pest control. Therefore, this paper aims to improve the identification of pest larvae. The classification of these similar caterpillars can be regarded as fine-grained image classification. However, taking existing fine-grained classification methods to classify the pest larvae still has the following problems. First, the object categories covered by the existing standard fine-grained image datasets (such as Birds, dogs, cars, and airplanes) have the same characteristics, and the various parts of the object are distinguished, with prominent outlines. However, the body parts of some larvae are not visually prominent. Second, compared with the samples in the standard data set, the background environment of the larvae samples is mostly more complicated, and some larvae use mimicry to disguise themselves, which brings difficulties to identification and classification. This paper proposes a fine-grained image classification algorithm that can extract more subtle features to solve the above problems. Experiments show that the model proposed in this paper surpasses the existing general image classification model and fine-grained image classification model on the agricultural pest fine-grained dataset AgrFIP20 and the large-scale agricultural pest dataset AgrIP138.
DEVELOPMENT OF A CASSAVA WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM(CWTS) FOR PURIFYING CASAVA PROCESSING EFFLUENT USING CHICKEN FEATHER AND COTTON WOOL AS FILTER MEDIA
Cassava wastewater contain high organic load (suspended solids(SS); Chemical Oxygen Demand(COD), turbidity, odor, and cyanide(CN). Cassava processing factory discharge this effluent into water bodies without treatment. The objective of this work is to develop a multistage Cassava Waste Treatment System (CWTS) using acrylic glass (Perspex) material with suitable flow kinetics for cassava effluent decontamination. Each of the columns contained up to 4 mm of 6mm milled chicken feathers and cotton wool as filter media. Control valves A-E maintained flow rates at 0.000508 (A) and 0.002 liters/second (B, C, D) during testing. Dimensions of the treatment column were: column 1: 400 mm x 160 mm x 160 mm: column 2: 300 mm x160 mm x 160 mm, column 3: 270 mm x 160 mm x 160 mm and column 4: 200 mm x 160 mm x 160 mm. 4 cups were inserted cups as the base of filter beds each containing a 3mm drilled hole for the passage of the treated effluent. Cups: 1 and 3 were filled with milled chicken feather while 2 and 4 cotton wool. When tap A was opened, 2-litre of the effluent was released onto column 1 for treatment during this period, taps B, C, D, and E were closed. For 10-20 minutes, the control tap B was opened while taps A, D, C, E were closed as further treatment occurred in column 2. Removal efficiency of the CWTS were 60-80% for SS,65-70% odor, 60-72% COD, and 80-90% turbidity level and cyanide 40 to 50%.