About the Book
The Agri-Food industry currently faces a range of challenges, from food safety and security, demand, and supply gaps to the maintenance of product quality and issues in product traceability. Smart digital technologies have opened a complete paradigm shift, providing solutions to these challenges, and helping move towards safe, resilient, responsive, and eventually profit-driven supply chains.
The use of these digital technologies by Agri-Food supply chains can bring significant changes in food supply chain management by reducing food wastage, real-time product monitoring, and reducing scalability issues. Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies addresses new research on digital technologies in the industry, including smart packaging, smart warehousing, effective inventory control, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other Industry 4.0 concepts.
Agri-Food 4.0 explores the challenges and complexities in implementing such technologies, helping policymakers in the agri-food sector with impact assessment and digital transformation towards creating a sustainable industry.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Research Trends and Innovation Perspectives about Sustainability and Agri-Food 4.0; Capobianco Uriarte Maria de Las Mercedes, Cravero Ricardo, Regodesebes Alejandro, Grabois Marcelo, and Casado Belmonte Maria Pilar
Chapter 2. Digital Technology: Implementation Challenges and Strategies in Agri-Food Supply Chains; Priyanka Vern, Naema Miftah, and Anupama Panghal
Chapter 3. Modelling the Challenges for Agri-Food Supply Chain 4.0: TISM Approach; Shilpa Sindhu and Rupesh Kumar
Chapter 4. An Overview for Food Loss and Waste Reduction in Food Supply Chains; Banu Y. Ekren and Vikas Kumar
Chapter 5. Technological Advancement and Circular Economy Practices in Food Supply Chain; Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Muhammad Umar, Hafiz Muhammad Zia-ul-haq, and Zhang Yu
Chapter 6. Blockchain-Based Smart Wheat Supply Chain Model in Indian Context; Shobha Rathore, Nainsi Gupta, A.P.S. Rathore, and Gunjan Soni
Chapter 7. Drone Based Crop Product Quality Monitoring System: An Application of Smart Agriculture; Altaf Alam, Anurag Chauhan, Mohd Tauseef Khan, and Zainul Abdin Jaffery
Chapter 8. Overview of IoT in the Agro-ecosystem; Mehul Parmar and Ranjan Kumar
Chapter 9. Smart Irrigation System Using IoT; Amit Kumar, Praful Ranjan, and Vaibhav Saini
Chapter 10. Digital Transformation: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Product Benefits and Problems of Agritech Industry; C. Ganeshkumar, Arokiaraj David, and D. Raja Jebasingh
Chapter 11. Advancement in Packaging Technologies for Agri-Food Sector; Priyanka Dubey, Owais Yousuf, and Anupama Singh
Chapter 12. Industry 4.0 Technologies in Agri-Food Supply Chains: Key Performance Indicators; Rohit Sharma
Chapter 13. Robotics and Automation for Agri-Food 4.0: Innovation and Challenges; Rahul S Mor, Dinesh Kumar, Anupama Singh, Neethu K
About the Author :
Dr. Rahul S. Mor holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Production Engineering, specializing in Supply Chain & Operations Analytics. He currently works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Sonepat, India, researching operational design & development, agri-food supply chain, and manufacturing systems.
Dr. Dinesh Kumar holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management and is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Production and Industrial Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India. His research areas are supply chain management, perishable inventory management and operations management.
Dr. Anupama Singh has over 27 years of academic experience in the agri-food processing sectors and is Professor and Head at the Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Sonepat, India. Her research includes bio-waste utilization, sustainable food-processing novel technologies, product development and value addition.
