Focus and Scope

Agriculture is defined as the science, art and practice of farming including crops and animals, with the industrial principle  that makes solar energy available to human utilization by fully use  the cycling function of nature. As an industry, agriculture can be approached through production system means that agriculture is similar to the process of converting input materials such as climate, soil, crop, capital, labour into finished products that have value in the market place including food and feed.

Agriculture sector is going to face enormous challenges in order to feed people through the increase of food production which is to be achieved in spite of the limited availability of arable land,  increasing need of fresh water and other less predictable factors. One way to address such challenges and increase the quality and quantity of agricultural production is using technology, because technology has played a central role in overcoming food security challenges in the past. The 20th century was marked a significant time in scientific research that contribute to historical food production increase. Science based agriculture hold great promise for tackling the worlds growing population and food demand.

Broader adoption of science and technology can enable to meet the growing food demand by improving the lifelihoods of farmers via producing more and high quality crops for a growing population, enhancing the nutritional value and safety of food to improve health and wellbeing of people around the world, and contributing to agricultural sustainability through reduced resource use. Future increase in agricultural productivity required an improved seeds that enable crops to withstand in environmental and biological stresses, crop protection solution, modern irrigation practices, fertilizer and mechanization. Meeting global food needs will demand an innovative science based solutions. Journal of Agricultural Technology Innovation (Agrinova) therefore will focus on input and output innovations such as planting materials, fertilizer, bio-pesticide, water management, devices and energy and even post harvest sectors. Innovation will be done also for social capital in term of community institution and business management. Such innovations  render  agricultural production more efficient  and profitable.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first checked by assistant editor. The aim of the checking is to make a formatted manuscript (following template) and to identify plagiarism. The formatted manuscript as well as plagiarism result send to an editor by editor-in-chef based on the focus and scope. The editor would evaluate whether the manuscript is match with the focus and scope of Agrinova and plagiarism result has to be less than 20%. Every submitted manuscript which pass this step, later would be sent to two reviewers. Agrinova uses double blind review. The manuscript will pass to the reviewers anonymously. Reviewer comments are also sent anonymously to corresponding author to take the necessary actions and responses. Then, the editor would evaluate the revised manuscript and take a decision by considering reviewer’s recommendation among several possibilities: rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted. The editor of Agritech has the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.

Publication Frequency

Agrinova published two times a year in December and June.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Frequency

Agrinova publishes two times in a year i.e. November and May.

Publication Ethics

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

As a peer-reviewed journal, this statement clarifies ethical conduct to all parties involve in manucsript publication, including the author(s), editors (editor in chief and associated editor), and the peer reviewer. This statement is relied on Practice Guidelines for publication as in Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE's Best).

1. Reporting Standards:

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

2. Data Access:

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review if necessary.

3. Originality and Plagiarism:

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

4. Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication:

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

5. Acknowledgement of Sources:

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

6. Authorship of the Paper:

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

7. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

8. Fundamental errors in published works:

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

9. Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects:

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. 

DUTIES OF EDITORS

1. Fair Play:

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

2. Confidentiality:

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

3. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

4. Publication Decisions:

The editor board journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

5. Review of Manuscripts:

Editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer reviewed. Editor should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions:

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

2. Promptness:

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process

3. Standards of Objectivity:

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

4. Confidentiality:

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

5.  Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

6. Acknowledgement of Sources:

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Screening Plagiarism

To check the possibility of plagiarism manuscript is submitted using the application AiMOS 2.0