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A shortage of calcium and the resulting physiological problems, like tip burn, create serious difficulties for indoor hydroponic lettuce growing, reducing both harvest and grade. This paper puts forward a unique strategy that merges cutting-edge image segmentation and classification methods to spot calcium insufficiency in lettuce during its growth phases under colored LED light. Recognizing nutrient shortfalls at an early stage is key for prompt correction and efficient nutrient control. The trial cultivated butterhead lettuce in a Deep-Water Culture (DWC) arrangement with managed calcium doses. Image preparation steps, involving Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) and Red Color Correction (RCC), were used to boost picture quality and uniformity, and augmentation was performed to increase model resilience. Our method adopted a two-step workflow that enabled us to exploit the advantages of dedicated models. First, lettuce foliage was separated from the backdrop through state-of-the-art architectures, including U-Net, U-Net++, Recurrent U-Net, and Inception U-Net. U-Net++ showed the top segmentation performance (98.56%) with strong generalization compared to its counterparts. Segmentation extracts the target zone and discards background clutter, permitting the classifier to focus more productively on disease-indicating traits. Deep learning classification networks, namely ResNet and EfficientNet, were used in the second step to identify calcium insufficiency from the segmented pictures. EfficientNetB2 stood out as the most dependable classifier, securing an accuracy of 91.51% on the RCC dataset, while Resnet50 attained a closely matching accuracy of 91.18% on that same dataset. This work emphasizes the promise of weaving deep learning models into automated hydroponic setups for live nutrient tracking, supplying a workable answer to improve output and sustainability in indoor hydroponic operations.

Health surveillance depends fundamentally on the reliable tracking of individual calves. Yet, prevailing multi-object tracking frameworks are prone to recurrent identification anomalies, particularly ID switches arising under occluded conditions. To overcome this limitation, we introduce YSD-BPTrack in this work, a novel multi-object tracking framework tailored for calves within occlusion-prone farm environments. The architecture is divided into two principal stages: detection and tracking. For the detection stage, DCNv4 is embedded into the YOLOv8s model to learn spatial deformations caused by occlusion, thereby strengthening detection robustness under such conditions. Meanwhile, the Star operation borrowed from StarNet is adopted to deliver high detection capability while keeping computational demands low. In the tracking stage, we first devise an original rematching mechanism (Rematching module) alongside a redesigned trajectory removal policy (Trajectory removal module). The Rematching module exploits expanded trajectory prediction boxes to re-establish correspondences with detection boxes during occlusion events, thereby cutting down on ID switch errors. The Trajectory Removal module, in turn, flexibly governs the timeout period for lost trajectories, minimizing the risk of premature trajectory deletion. Concretely, the framework we propose sets a new HOTA (Higher Order Tracking Accuracy) score of 91.6%, leading competing approaches in both tracking quality and runtime performance. Experimental evidence further demonstrates the advantage of YSD-BPTrack, with HOTA climbing by 17.6%, MOTA (Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy) by 13.9%, MOTP (Multiple Object Tracking Precision) by 1.8%, IDF1 (Identification F1 Score) by 15.4%, accompanied by reductions of 49.1% in parameters, 88.9% in IDSw (Identification Switches), and 39.2% in computational overhead relative to the other frameworks. Collectively, the presented multi-object tracking framework carries strong potential to redefine calf tracking practice.

As urban landscaping advances, the struggle with garden pests and diseases grows more critical. Substantial interest has been drawn to large language models for their skill in interpreting what users mean and producing suitable responses. The addition of knowledge graphs has offered these models a well-organized, high-quality foundation of facts. This investigation merges knowledge graphs (KGs), large language models (LLMs), and similar tools to engineer a smart question-answering (Q&A) framework for garden pest and disease contexts. Forge a knowledge graph dedicated to garden pests and diseases by amassing dependable data through web scraping and scholarly review. Pinpoint central entities and their links to shape a conceptual schema. Employ the ERNIE-BiLSTM-CRF architecture to pull facts from unstructured text. Testing reveals the fact-extraction system advanced in this work scores above 92% on precision, recall, and F1 metrics, beating competing designs. Put forward a Q&A strategy that fuses the garden pest and disease KG with the ERNIE-Bot-turbo engine. Knowledge is turned into vectors, and the closest matches are located via similarity search; these top hits are then bundled with the query into cues fed to the language engine for natural language output. Trials stacking our technique against ERNIE-Bot-turbo and ChatGLM-6B showed strong results across easy, mid-level, and tough problems, sidestepping off-base replies to out-of-scope questions. It exceeded both baselines in correctness, hitting a 90% exact-answer mark for straightforward queries.

Precise categorization of avocado ripeness plays a vital role in strengthening post-harvest operations and curbing waste throughout agricultural supply networks. The present study centers on constructing a resilient ensemble classification framework employing spectral readings from 120 kilograms of Buccaneer avocados procured from the Royal Project in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The specimens were assessed via near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy at 18 wavelengths. Five distinct machine learning models—Random Forest, Decision Tree, XGBoost, Gradient Boosting, and Gaussian Mixture Model—were separately trained and subsequently fused into a unified ensemble. Four distinct algorithms were deployed to fine-tune the weighting of each model: Bayesian optimisation, differential evolution, particle swarm optimisation, and grid search. Evaluation metrics covering accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, confusion matrices, and ROC curves were applied. Grid Search yielded the strongest classification outcomes, securing an accuracy of 82.5% alongside an F1-score of 85.3%, emphasizing the value of weight-refined ensemble learning relative to standalone classifiers. This investigation delivers a scalable and transparent pipeline for non-destructive ripeness identification. The outcomes, notwithstanding constraints related to overfitting and dependency on spectral data integrity, pave the way for eventual real-time field deployment in agriculture.

Edge devices are increasingly regarded as a portable, budget-friendly alternative to conventional personal computer terminals, offering a promising route toward downsizing equipment and highly flexible robotic fruit harvesting at the field scale. The present study proposes a compact, optimized You Only Look Once version 8n (YOLOv8n) architecture tailored for Orah fruit detection and subsequent deployment on an edge computing platform. Initially, ADown modules were brought into the design to shrink the overall model footprint while safeguarding detection performance. Next, a Concentrated-Comprehensive Dual Convolution (C3_DualConv) component, built around paired convolutional bottlenecks, was devised to reinforce the network’s ability to perceive Orah fruits partly hidden behind branches and foliage; this intervention also contributed to additional model compression. Furthermore, a Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) equipped with a high-resolution layer at pyramid level 2 was adopted to facilitate more powerful multi-scale feature aggregation. In parallel, three Coordinate Attention (CA) mechanism modules were embedded to sharpen the system’s sensitivity to Orah fruit features. Finally, a more targeted minimum points distance intersection-over-union loss formulation was applied to improve detection throughput for Orah fruits experiencing dense mutual occlusion. Experimental trials confirmed that the enhanced YOLOv8n architecture reliably pinpointed Orah fruits operating inside challenging orchard scenes, delivering precision of 97.7%, Average Precision at IoU threshold 0.5 ([email protected]) of 98.8%, and an F1 score of 96.69%, all while occupying a lean 4.1 MB of storage on a Windows-based system terminal. The resulting model was then optimally transferred to an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano via the TensorRT Python Application Programming Interface (API), achieving a mean interface throughput of over 30 fps and thereby verifying real-time detection performance. The outcomes of this work stand to offer technical foundations for Orah fruit robotic harvesting powered by edge-based computing.

Within the densely structured environment of an orchard, pinpointing the exact harvesting location is fundamental to the autonomous operation of fruit-picking robotic systems. Despite this, current techniques are prone to miscalculations in positioning under intricate conditions such as abbreviated stalks, partial concealment, or instances where the target is entirely misread, any of which can compromise the robot's operational efficiency in the field. To address complex vineyard harvesting scenarios, this paper presents an advanced method for picking-point determination that relies on semantic-level inference. The approach introduces three novel components: the semantic reasoning module (SRM), the ROI threshold adjustment strategy (RTAS), and the picking point location optimization module (PPOM). The SRM is deployed to resolve cases where obstructions mask grape stalks, suffer from partial recognition errors, or undergo total recognition failure. The RTAS is designed to overcome difficulties associated with stalks that are positioned low and are notably short during the picking sequence. In the final stage, the PPOM adjusts the calculated picking point coordinates to their optimum, granting the manipulator greater maneuverability as it executes the harvest action. Empirical validation demonstrates that SegFormer produces an mIoU (mean Intersection over Union) of 84.54%, accompanied by B_IoU and P_IoU scores of 73.90% and 75.63%, respectively. In addition, the refined fruit-picking point localization method achieved a success rate of 94.96%, representing an improvement of 8.12% over the baseline technique. The average computation time stands at 0.5428 ± 0.0063 s per instance, which is adequate for real-time harvesting demands.

The choice of methodologies is a pivotal factor in disease identification, particularly when computer vision intersects with agricultural innovation. Safeguarding global food supplies depends on the timely and accurate identification of crop diseases. Deep learning offers a feasible pathway to satisfy this demand. To move this research forward, we engineered and tested a disease identification framework grounded in a novel ensemble strategy. Our contribution includes the presentation of DenseNetMini, a more compact iteration of the DenseNet architecture. We advocate merging DenseNetMini with a learning resizer via an ensemble approach to improve training fidelity and accelerate knowledge acquisition. A further innovative element involves deploying Gradient Product (GP) as the optimization mechanism, efficiently reducing the training time while simultaneously improving model performance. Investigating imagery at varying magnifications reveals remarkable improvements in diagnostic consensus and precision. Accuracy figures on test data reach 99.65%, 98.96%, and 98.11% for the Plantvillage, Tomato leaf, and Appleleaf9 collections, respectively. A core triumph of this investigation is the substantial reduction in computational time, suggesting that GP adoption could make agricultural disease screening more accessible and operationally efficient. Beyond numerical gains, the work foregrounds Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches as indispensable for enhancing the interpretability and clarity of the disease detection framework. By visually pinpointing diagnostically relevant zones on foliage, XAI enhances the model’s comprehensibility, thereby nurturing user confidence and insight into how it arrives at its conclusions.

Assessing the extent of plant injury is a vital element of crop safeguarding. Currently, domain experts evaluate the plots by hand. This labor-intensive activity can be mechanized utilizing cutting-edge computer vision (CV) technology. Image-reliant systems, and lately those grounded in deep learning, have demonstrated strong performance across multiple agricultural use cases. These image-based applications surpass specialist appraisals in regulated conditions and are now progressively being incorporated into uncontrolled, in-field deployments. A new solution, rooted in deep learning techniques and image processing, is proposed to estimate crop damage under field conditions. The recommended solution operates through a two-stage pipeline. The first stage identifies individual plants within the plots using a YOLO-based object detection model. After that, a regression model is applied to gauge the damage per isolated plant. The system was designed and corroborated on oilseed rape plants to measure the damage inflicted by the flea beetle. The plant detection model achieves an overall mean average precision of 91%, with [email protected] of 0.99 and [email protected] of 0.91 for the oilseed rape category. The regression model, built to predict damage severity up to 60% in single plants, yields an MAE of 7.11 and an R² of 0.46 when evaluated against plant-by-plant assessments conducted by human experts. Both models are packaged in a Docker container and can be directly queried via a REST API using images captured in the field from a mobile device.

Obtaining body mass in large-scale rearing and production environments is difficult, making non-contact assessment methods indispensable. This paper introduces an original pipeline for predicting pig body mass based on an adapted mask region convolutional neural network (mask R-CNN). The adaptation deploys ResNeSt as the backbone feature-extraction architecture, aiming to bolster the capacity to derive features from imagery. A feature pyramid network (FPN) was appended to this backbone to enable feature merging across multiple scales. Within the region proposal network (RPN), a channel attention mechanism (CAM) was installed alongside a spatial attention mechanism (SAM), enabling the dynamic combination of localized characteristics with their long-range interdependencies. This configuration captures holistic contextual knowledge, ultimately improving segmentation fidelity. The adapted architecture achieved precision (P) of 90.33%, recall (R) of 89.85%, and mean average precision (MAP) of 95.21%, thereby isolating pig areas in images with notable effectiveness. Five descriptive features drawn from the imagery were examined: back area, body length, body width, average depth, and eccentricity. Leveraging the pig depth images, five regression learning algorithms—ordinary least squares (OLS), AdaBoost, CatBoost, XGBoost, and random forest (RF)—were trained to forecast mass values. AdaBoost delivered the strongest predictive performance, evidenced by a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.987, a mean absolute error (MAE) of 2.96 kg, a mean square error (MSE) of 12.87 kg², and a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 8.45%. The experimental results confirm that machine learning models can reliably predict pig mass, providing a technical foundation for the informed management of pig production facilities.

The tractor functions as a fundamental power source for farming activities. Still, the available power is frequently not fully exploited because of poor matching between the tractor and the attached implement under actual field conditions. To improve overall system productivity, it is essential to gather information on performance-related variables characterising the tractor-implement unit. In this work, we build a real-time Instrumented Tractor Performance Monitoring System (ITPMS) that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT). The hardware foundation comprises a Raspberry Pi, a GPS sensor, a proximity sensor, a rotary potentiometer, and a three-point hitch dynamometer. The rotary potentiometer records tillage depth, whereas the three-point hitch dynamometer captures draft force values. Proximity sensors are mounted on a two-wheel-drive (2WD) tractor to measure forward speed and drive-wheel slip. A dedicated web server is set up within a Google® Firebase® project, allowing storage of data streams from all sensors via the Raspberry Pi. Alongside this, a web interface and a mobile application are constructed to present the sensor-generated data in real time. Field experiments were conducted to assess and observe the performance variables of the tractor-implement unit employing the built ITPMS. The findings reveal that the system can reliably monitor the performance variables required for the tractor-implement unit. Furthermore, the system’s ability to transmit updated information to the IoT server without delay is verified. Altogether, designing and deploying this Raspberry Pi–centred IoT framework provides a trustworthy and effective approach for real-time performance monitoring of instrumented tractors.

The surveillance of poultry movement patterns is an essential diagnostic tool for welfare evaluation, yet manual monitoring routines impose considerable temporal demands and physical strain, particularly in high-density flocks. Inadequately trained personnel may additionally fail to recognize subtle shifts in behavioral intensity, thereby overlooking critical windows for prophylactic intervention and remedial action. The present work merges conventional camera-based observation with a sophisticated automated recognition architecture to classify diverse broiler conduct within commercial housing. Deployment of a two-stage deep learning pipeline occurs as follows: initial detection localizes individual birds, followed by identification of five principal anatomical landmarks (cranial region, ventral region, bilateral limbs, and caudal appendage). From these points, a skeletal framework anchored in the ventral region is generated, yielding six angular measurements via trigonometric computations. A long short-term memory network subsequently processes these angular sequences, estimating the likelihood across behavioral categories encompassing “Standing”, “Walking”, “Resting”, “Eating”, “Preening”, and “Flapping”, with the highest-probability classification retained. To quantify the temporal distribution between stationary and dynamic states, a cascaded fuzzy-logic inference architecture was implemented, providing a resilient assessment of overall activity magnitude. Validation conducted within a mixed-gender rearing facility demonstrated that the proposed methodology attained performance floors of 85.2% for broiler categorization, 79.2% for anatomical landmark localization, and 50.8% for behavioral classification accuracy. Activity-level determinations generated by the system were consistent with evaluations by veteran poultry husbandry specialists.

Achieving optimal cannabis crop performance and product quality hinges on dependable, automated systems for leaf disease identification that allow for swift diagnosis and action. Present-day automated methods fall short of being purpose-built for the distinct difficulties inherent in spotting cannabis diseases, rarely holding up across shifting environmental contexts and varying phases of plant maturity. This paper proposes a novel Hybrid Adaptive Multi-Intelligence System for Deep Learning Ensembles (HyAMIS-DLE), grounded in an extensive data collection that mirrors the breadth of cannabis leaf pathologies and their unfolding. The design pairs non-population-based decision merging within the image preparation pipeline with population-based decision merging at the classification stage, calling upon a variety of CNN backbones. The outcome is a meaningful leap in key performance measures: HyAMIS-DLE achieves 99.58% accuracy, besting standard architectures by up to 4.16%, while also offering markedly improved resilience and a boosted Area Under the Curve (AUC) metric, enabling a clear distinction between unaffected and afflicted foliage. Rolling HyAMIS-DLE into our Automated Cannabis Leaf Disease Classification System (A-CLDC-S) confirms its on-the-ground value, helping achieve higher harvest volumes, reduce waste, and advance ecologically sound farming practices.

Agricultural artificial intelligence is increasingly shaped by a precision paradigm that treats good farming as the increasingly fine-grained optimization of inputs, outputs, risks, and operational decisions. This paradigm is attractive because it promises measurable efficiency, predictive control, and scalable decision support across complex farming systems. In climate-sensitive agriculture, however, the same orientation can narrow what counts as a good decision. The problem is that climate-sensitive farming is not merely a technical setting in which better data automatically produce better outcomes. Farmers must act under uncertainty, ecological variability, long time horizons, and ethically contested trade-offs involving productivity, resilience, livelihoods, and environmental stewardship. These conditions expose the limits of optimization as a sufficient guide for responsible agricultural AI. This article develops a conceptual framework that shifts the guiding principle of agricultural AI from precision to prudence. Prudence is understood as practical wisdom: the capacity to deliberate well about what is fitting, responsible, and contextually appropriate when action is necessary but certainty is unavailable. The framework therefore reorients AI from prescribing optimal decisions to supporting wise and accountable judgment. The article is based on a conceptual synthesis peer-reviewed publications across agricultural ethics, responsible innovation, precision agriculture, AI governance, climate adaptation, and science and technology studies. It critiques precision agriculture as an optimization paradigm, articulates prudence as a responsible AI principle, and develops a framework for climate-sensitive decision support. Two tables contrast the precision and prudence paradigms and present the proposed conceptual framework. The central argument is not that agricultural AI should abandon data, modelling, prediction, or decision support. Rather, responsible AI for climate-sensitive farming should use these capacities to enlarge human judgment rather than replace it. A prudent AI system helps farmers deliberate under uncertainty, compare trade-offs, question recommendations, and remain accountable for decisions that are ecological, social, and moral as well as technical.

Intelligent farming systems increasingly depend on data generated through sensors, machinery, satellites, digital platforms, advisory tools, farm management software, and artificial intelligence-enabled decision-support systems. These systems promise more precise monitoring, improved resource allocation, and better responsiveness to environmental and operational uncertainty. As farm operations become more data-intensive, farm data shift from being a by-product of agricultural activity to becoming a strategic asset within intelligent farming systems. This transformation creates governance problems that cannot be resolved through technical data management alone. Farm data raise contested questions about ownership, consent, access, interoperability, platform dependence, accountability, and farmer control. These questions are especially important because data generated on farms may be used beyond the original farming context for commercial analytics, platform development, benchmarking, insurance, input recommendation, credit scoring, or supply-chain governance. The objective of this article is to develop a data stewardship framework for intelligent farms. The framework is designed to clarify how ownership, consent, access, interoperability, accountability, and farmer-control mechanisms can be organised in ways that support responsible digital agricultural innovation. It treats data stewardship as a governance function that mediates between innovation, commercial data use, and the protection of farmers’ decision-making authority. The article is based on a governance framework synthesis  peer-reviewed articles published. It does not present new empirical data. Instead, it synthesises literature on digital agriculture, smart farming, agricultural data governance, platformisation, responsible innovation, interoperability, and farmer data rights to construct a practical and conceptual governance framework. The article maps farm data as a governance problem, analyses ownership and consent issues, examines interoperability and platform dependence, and proposes a stewardship framework for intelligent farms. Three tables summarise ownership and control issues, interoperability risks, and the proposed framework. Responsible intelligent farming requires data stewardship arrangements that protect farmer control while enabling trustworthy data sharing and innovation.

Autonomous farming systems are moving rapidly from experimental prototypes into commercial and operational agricultural settings. Autonomous tractors, robotic weeders, drones, harvest-assist systems, and sensor-guided machines promise to address labour shortages, improve operational efficiency, and support more precise field management. Yet the governance arrangements needed to ensure that these systems remain safe, understandable, and accountable have not developed at the same pace. The central problem is not only whether autonomous machines can perform agricultural tasks accurately. It is whether farmers, workers, contractors, and rural communities can understand, supervise, question, override, and hold these systems accountable when they act in complex farm environments. Without deliberate attention to trust calibration, human override, explainability, and accountability, autonomous farming may produce technically impressive but socially fragile systems. This article develops a Human-Centred Governance Framework for autonomous farming. The framework is designed around four pillars: calibrated trust, meaningful human override, explainable decision-making, and clear accountability structures. Its purpose is to shift governance attention from machine capability alone toward the conditions under which autonomous systems can be responsibly integrated into agricultural work. The proposed framework shows that human-centred governance is not an optional ethical supplement to autonomous farming. It is a practical requirement for safe deployment, legitimate adoption, and accountable operation. By integrating trust, override, explainability, and accountability, the framework provides guidance for farm managers, technology developers, regulators, and agricultural service providers.

Smart farming increasingly depends on data generated by sensors, machinery, farm management systems, remote monitoring tools, digital platforms, and decision-support applications. These data flows support agronomic decision-making, resource efficiency, traceability, automation, advisory services, and supply-chain coordination. As farm operations become more data-intensive, farm data becomes a strategic resource rather than a neutral technical by-product. Farm data creates governance challenges because its production, interpretation, exchange, and reuse are distributed across multiple actors and technical systems. Farmers, technology providers, platform operators, agribusiness firms, advisors, researchers, regulators, and supply-chain actors may each hold different forms of access, control, and responsibility. This creates ambiguity around ownership claims, interoperability obligations, privacy safeguards, consent practices, accountability pathways, and farmer agency. This article develops a layered conceptual framework for farm data governance in smart farming ecosystems. The framework conceptualizes farm data governance as an interaction among data production, technical interoperability, ownership and control, privacy and consent, accountability mechanisms, platform governance, institutional oversight, and farmer agency. It argues that these layers must be analysed together because weaknesses in one layer can undermine governance capacity across the ecosystem. The article synthesizes scholarship on digital agriculture, smart farming, data ownership, interoperability, privacy, accountability, platform governance, farmer agency, and responsible innovation. Rather than treating farm data governance as a purely legal or technical matter, it develops a socio-technical model of how data flows, governance responsibilities, and institutional safeguards interact. This approach supports a more integrated understanding of responsible data governance in smart farming. The proposed framework explains how farm data governance can be organized across technical, organizational, legal, ethical, platform, and institutional layers. It highlights the need for interoperable systems, transparent contracts, meaningful consent, privacy-sensitive data practices, accountable platforms, institutional oversight, and farmer participation. The article contributes a farmer-centered governance model for smart farming ecosystems that are data-driven, trustworthy, and accountable.

Precision agriculture increasingly depends on sensor data generated by soil sensors, crop sensors, weather stations, machinery systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, satellite platforms, and farm management information systems. These technologies allow farms to observe spatial and temporal variability with a level of detail that was not previously available in conventional management. However, the existence of more data does not automatically lead to better decisions. Raw sensor observations must be cleaned, calibrated, validated, interpreted, translated into agronomic meaning, connected to decision-support logic, and assessed against the practical realities of farm work. This article develops a decision-intelligence framework for explaining how sensor data becomes actionable farm decisions in data-driven precision agriculture. The central argument is that decision intelligence depends on the full pathway from data capture to action, not on sensing or modeling alone. The article synthesizes scholarship on precision agriculture, smart farming, agricultural sensor systems, data processing, analytical modeling, decision-support systems, farmer judgment, contextual interpretation, and feedback learning. It treats precision agriculture as a human-in-the-loop management process rather than as a purely automated technical pipeline. The proposed framework contributes to precision agriculture scholarship by showing how sensor data can be transformed into decision-ready information, how decision-support recommendations must be interpreted by farmers, and how implemented actions generate feedback for adaptive farm management.

Explainable artificial intelligence is becoming central to precision agriculture because farm-management decisions increasingly depend on algorithmic recommendations generated from sensor, remote-sensing, weather, soil, crop, and machinery data. However, technical performance alone does not make agricultural AI trustworthy. A recommendation may be statistically accurate yet remain unusable if farmers cannot understand why it was produced, how uncertain it is, whether it fits local conditions, or how it can be questioned. This article develops a farmer-centered approach to explainable AI for precision agriculture. It argues that explainability must connect model logic with farmer interpretation, contextual judgment, decision confidence, contestability, accountability, and feedback learning. The proposed perspective treats farmers not as passive recipients of algorithmic advice but as active interpreters, evaluators, and co-decision-makers within human-in-the-loop agricultural systems. By reframing explainable AI as a socio-technical decision-support requirement, the article contributes a foundation for trustworthy algorithmic decision support that is understandable, usable, context-sensitive, and accountable in real farm-management conditions.

Precision agriculture is increasingly organized around farm-generated data, connected machinery, remote sensing, digital advisory tools, analytics platforms, and data-sharing arrangements that reshape how decisions are made, value is created, and responsibility is distributed across agricultural systems. This article develops an original policy framework for farm data sovereignty in precision agriculture, treating sovereignty not as a simple ownership claim but as a governance condition shaped by farmer rights, access, control, consent, portability, transparency, interoperability, benefit-sharing, accountability, and institutional oversight. The framework approach is conceptual and literature-grounded, focusing on how farm data move through platform-controlled infrastructures, service contracts, advisory networks, cooperatives, research systems, and commercial analytics environments. The central policy problem is that farmers may generate data essential to precision agriculture while lacking practical ability to understand, access, transfer, audit, contest, or benefit from data and data-derived services. The article identifies key governance dimensions for fair, transparent, and interoperable farm data ecosystems, including contract fairness, platform accountability, data stewardship, privacy, cybersecurity, algorithmic transparency, dispute resolution, and collective governance. Its contribution is to provide a structured policy framework that helps policymakers, farm organizations, cooperatives, technology providers, advisory services, researchers, and platform developers diagnose governance gaps and design data policies that protect farmer agency while enabling responsible data sharing and innovation in precision agriculture.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in smart farming through decision-support systems that integrate sensor data, remote sensing, machinery data, farm records, and predictive analytics. Yet agricultural decision-making cannot be reduced to automated recommendations because farm decisions are shaped by agronomic uncertainty, local field conditions, economic constraints, environmental goals, labor availability, machinery limitations, farmer experience, advisory relationships, and risk preferences. This conceptual framework article develops a farmer-centered account of human-in-the-loop intelligence for AI decision support in smart farming. The framework positions AI not as a substitute for farmer judgment but as one component of an iterative socio-technical decision process. It emphasizes farmer judgment, experiential knowledge, contextual validation, explainability, uncertainty communication, human oversight, trust calibration, advisor mediation, feedback, accountability, and adaptive decision-making. The article argues that human-in-the-loop intelligence is more than human approval of algorithmic outputs; it involves interpretation, questioning, correction, practical adaptation, and responsibility for situated decisions. By integrating agricultural AI, precision agriculture decision support, farmer knowledge, responsible innovation, and human-centered design perspectives, the manuscript contributes a structured conceptual basis for designing smart farming systems that preserve farmer agency while improving the practical relevance, transparency, and accountability of AI-supported decisions.