Muhammad Faheem

University of Agriculture Faisalabad · Department of Farm Machinery and Power

Timely and accurate detection of diseases in vegetables is crucial for effective management and mitigation strategies before they take a harmful turn. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for automated disease detection in crops due to their ability to learn intricate patterns from large-scale image d...

Water supplies are severely impacted by climate change, providing serious problems for agricultural management and food security. Water availability is changing as a result of changed patterns of precipitation, more frequent droughts, and higher evaporation rates, which has an effect on crop growth and yield potential. Water shortage becomes greate...

Power generation from fossil fuels is the biggest challenge in the next half of the century. Alternative power generation techniques such as solar photovoltaic (PV) show potential to act as a future fuel with a challenge to efficiently convert the harvested solar energy into electrical power. This investigation conclusively focused on setting a 2.1...

The advent of precision agriculture has revolutionized the agricultural sector, emphasizing the utilization of data-driven strategies for decision-making and the optimization of resources. Sensors, encompassing soil, crop, weather, and drone sensors, offer real-time data to facilitate informed decision-making and enhance agricultural outcomes. Thes...

Artificial intelligence-based automatic systems can reduce time, human error and post-harvest operations. By using such systems, food items can be successfully classified and graded based on defects. For this context, a machine vision system was developed for fruit grading based on defects. The prototype consisted of defective fruit detection and m...

For effective tillage, design and selection of tillage tool according to soil type and condition is very important. The present study is carried out for in-depth investigation of different types of shovels of tine cultivator and behavior of soil in response to loads subjected during tillage using finite element analysis. Different types of shovels...

Due to the increasing demand for food, the global shortage of agricultural labor and the reduction in the utilization of agricultural resources, the demand for agricultural autonomous navigation technology and equipment has become increasingly urgent. Compared to the closed express structured environment for self-driving cars, the agricultural scen...

Optimizing planting date and planting density for improving growth development of cotton using dssat under semi-arid conditions of Faisalabad. Pure and Applied Biology. Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp779-793. http://dx. Abstract Climate change is significantly affecting the cotton production system around the globe. Cotton production in Pakistan is under huge...

Huge harvest and post-harvest losses in conventional processes and methods demands precise applications of agricultural inputs. Computer vision based robotic picking is one of such systems that reduces time consumption, labor requirement; and enhances fruits picking and grading efficiency. In this study, an all-in-one prototype robotic picking cum...

Climate change effects on cotton planting date and planting density using modelling techniques: Review. Abstract Cotton is regarded as a cash crop in Pakistan and the country is ranked 5th in terms of production and 5th importer in the world as well. Climate change has threatened the world agriculture due to the severity of biotic and abiotic stres...

A light weight zone disc tiller drill was redesigned and developed employing Solid works and AutoCAD software's. For field performance evaluation of the machine, the experimental trials were conducted at Post Graduate Research Station, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. An area of 2.5 ha (6.12 acres) was divided into two halves; one-h...

Composting is an integral part of waste management. In-vessel composting makes for a more efficient compost within a short period. Composting allows the transformation of waste into a useful product. However, the processes involved and the end product can differ concerning quality, performance, or safety. Composting, an exothermic process, is major...

Pakistan is among the countries that are highly vulnerable to climate change. The country has experienced severe floods and droughts during recent decades. The agricultural sector in Paki-stan is adversely affected by climate change. This systematic review paper set out to analyze the existing literature on adaptation measures at the farm level tow...

Biogas is one of the renewable energy resources produced from the anaerobic fermentation of biomass. About 60% of Pakistan population live in rural areas that demand energy source for domestic and commercial use. Therefore, biogas plants can be used as one of the renewable energy sources in Pakistan. This paper described the development and perform...

Design and Development of Solar Parabolic Trough Collector

Every crop breeding effort seeks to enhance production. Despite several advances, most worldwide breeding efforts have long sought to improve grain production potential, insect/pest/disease resistance, grain quality, and stress tolerance. Almost all wheat breeding programs aim to increase grain yield potential. Wheat breeders have achieved substant...

Crop establishment is the most important phenological stage in the life cycle of crop plants which is governed by the pre-sowing quality of seed. From harvesting to sowing, a broad range of factors including genomics and prevailing environmental conditions can have marked influence on the quality of seed. These factors solely or in combination can...

The performance of sprayer UAVs largely depends on accurate trajectory control while spraying. A large amount of a liquid payload may create a sloshing effect inside the liquid tank, which may occur largely during hazardous phenomena, such as wind gusts and obstacle avoidance. This all-way sloshing force inside the tank may disturb the UAV’s trajec...

Water management is becoming a critical issue for sustainable agriculture, especially in the semi-arid region, where problems with water scarcity are rising. More accurate water status recovery in crops is required for precise irrigation through remote sensing technologies. These technologies have a lot of potential in intelligent irrigation becaus...

Every crop breeding effort aims to increase production. Despite several advances, most worldwide breeding projects have traditionally focused on improving grain production potential, insect/pest and disease resistance, grain quality, and stress tolerance. Almost all rice breeding initiatives aim to increase grain yield. However, the value of this c...

Crop models are widely used in developing crop management strategies for sustainable production especially under changing climatic conditions. The impact of sub-optimal climatic conditions on peanut production can be explored with the aid of such models. Peanut being the king of oilseeds, enjoys itself a prime position amongst all other cash crops...

Solar drying is one of the most simple and ancient drying techniques known to mankind. Even, most of the agricultural products like cereals, fruits, vegetables, and spices are processed under sun. However, the direct exposure of these food materials to open sun has many disadvantages due to dust, rain, winds and favorable environmental conditions f...

Accurate fruit segmentation in images is the prerequisite and key step for precision agriculture. In this article, aiming at the segmentation of grape cluster with different varieties, 3 state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, i.e., Fully Convolutional Network (FCN), U-Net, and DeepLabv3+ applied on six different datasets were studied. We...

Citation: Faheem, M.; Liu, J.; Chang, G.; Abbas, I.; Xie, B.; Shan, Z.; Yang, K. Experimental Research on Grape Cluster Vibration Signals during Transportation and Placing for Harvest and Post-Harvest Handling. Agriculture 2021, 11, 902. https://

Mechanical damage induced by vibration during harvesting and post-harvest handling could decrease the quality, quantity, and shelf life of the fresh grape cluster. Usually, fresh grape clusters are harvested by gripping and cutting from the main rachis in the present robotic harvesting system, then transported towards the basket during post-harvest...

Rapid treatment processing for agricultural waste is of the utmost importance with the boom in China's agriculture sector. Ultra-high temperature aerobic fermentation pre-treatment process assisted composting (HTC) is superior to traditional composting (CCT) with enhanced compost maturity and accelerated organic matter degradation. This research ai...

The planting section of vegetable cultivation system practiced in China is moving rapidly in the direction of computerized transplanting. While seedlings metering device is considered a bottleneck in sense of its application in tunnel farming. Therefore, a novel type of belt drive seedlings transmission device has been designated by considering the...

Biogas is one of the renewable energy resources produced from the anaerobic fermentation of biomass. About 60% of Pakistan population live in rural areas that demand energy source for domestic and commercial use. Therefore, biogas plants can be used as one of the renewable energy sources in Pakistan. This paper described the development and perform...

In this paper, a brief study of small scale solar parabolic trough collector design, simulation, fabrication, and analyzed for heating water as a domestic purpose in the backward regions of developing countries are studied. During the designing phase, the solar parabolic trough collector aperture area was set as 1.5 m² with 1 m wide and 1.5 m lengt...

Chemical application of nutrients and pesticides is one of the most important processes in agricultural production, but also one of the most dangerous agricultural operations. To improve the chemical efficacy, reduce chemical and labor costs, minimize labor hazards, and reduce the harmful environmental damage. Variable-rate spray applications that...

Agriculture is undoubtedly a leading field for livelihoods in China. As the population increases, it is necessary to increase agricultural productivity. By capturing the support and the increment in production on farms, the need for freshwater used for irrigation increases too. Presently, agriculture accounts for 80% of overall water uptake in Chin...

Detachment of fruit from the plants is a basic and essential step either in manual or in robotic harvesting. Usually there are two methods involved in fruit detachment one is fruit cutting and the other is fruit plucking. Compared with fruit cutting, fruit plucking is more simple, low cost, and flexible in robotic harvesting. Different plucking pat...

Automatic defect detection is gaining huge importance in photovoltaic (PV) field due to limited application of manual/visual inspection and rising production quantities of PV modules. This study is conducted for automatic detection of PV module defects in electroluminescence (EL) images. We presented a novel approach using light convolutional neura...

Transplanting seedlings is one of the most important but labor-intensive operations in strawberry cultivation. However, oversized strawberry seedlings, the planting environment of elevated cultivation facilities and the requirement of positioning the arched back outward are unique challenges compared with current transplanters for other plants. Fir...

The estimation of groundwater abstraction at different spatial scales of lower canal system in Punjab, Pakistan was made for Khurianwala and Mungi distributaries to quantify groundwater abstraction, during 2014-2015 to identify the share of canal water in relevance to groundwater, to minimize the crop water demand and to access the constraints in t...

In this study different parameters affecting the performance of wheat thresher were established. The performance of the thresher was tested at three different speeds of the cylinder (S1 = 1600 rpm, S2 = 1700 rpm and S3= 1800 rpm), three different feed rates of the crop (FR1 = 200 kg/h, FR2 = 250 kg/h and FR3 = 300 kg/h) and three different varietie...

Economic growth in Pakistani agricultural sector lags behind growth in industry and services, creating an ever widening rural-urban income fissure. Agricultural mechanization plays a strategic role in improving agricultural production and productivity in developing countries. The average farm size in Pakistan is small (2.5 acres) and small and marg...

Post harvest technologies like quality drying can play an important role for preservation of agricultural products. The solar based renewable technologies are in dire need to be preferred and improved because it is free from operating cost. In this context, a glass glazed solar tunnel dryer was constructed by a locally available material in Univers...