Aim and Scope
Jurnal Agrium (Journal of Agricultural Research) aims to advance knowledge and practice in the agricultural sciences by publishing high-quality, rigorously peer-reviewed research that is methodologically sound, ethically conducted, and impactful for science, practice, and policy. The journal serves academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers by:
- Disseminating new findings from basic and applied research across crop and soil systems, plant health, production technologies, and agri-food value chains.
- Synthesizing evidence through critical and systematic reviews and meta-analyses that clarify the state of the art and set agendas for future research.
- Bridging science and practice by highlighting innovations that improve productivity, resilience, sustainability, and farmer livelihoods.
- Encouraging open, transparent scholarship through clear reporting, reproducible methods, appropriate statistics, and responsible data sharing (where permissible).
- Promoting interdisciplinary approaches that integrate biophysical, technological, and socio-economic perspectives on agriculture.
Areas of Coverage
The journal publishes high-quality manuscripts covering basic and applied research, as well as critical reviews, across the following thematic areas:
- Crop & Production Sciences
- Agronomy & Crop Physiology: cropping systems, resource-use efficiency (water, light, nutrients), intercropping, cover crops, yield gap analysis.
- Plant Breeding & Genetics: conventional and molecular breeding, QTL/GWAS, genomic selection, seed science/technology, tissue culture.
- Horticulture & Plantation Crops: fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, and estate crops (e.g., oil palm, rubber, cocoa, coffee, tea).
- Soil, Nutrients & Environment
- Soil Science & Plant Nutrition: soil fertility, amendments, rhizosphere processes, nutrient cycling, fertilizer innovations, soil health indicators.
- Agroecology & Sustainability: biodiversity and ecosystem services, conservation agriculture, regenerative practices, circular bioeconomy.
- Climate Change & Resilience: mitigation/adaptation in crop–soil systems, carbon and nitrogen budgets, drought/heat/flood stress management.
- Plant Health & Biosecurity
- Plant Pathology: diagnostics, epidemiology, host resistance, integrated disease management.
- Entomology & Acarology: pest biology, biological control, IPM, pesticide resistance management.
- Weed Science: weed ecology, herbicide technology, resistance, cultural/mechanical control.
- Biosecurity: surveillance, early detection, risk analysis, invasive species management.
- Engineering, Technology & Data
- Agricultural Engineering & Mechanization: tillage, irrigation and drainage, protected cultivation, energy use, postharvest equipment.
- Precision & Digital Agriculture: sensors/IoT, UAV/remote sensing, GIS, variable-rate technology, decision-support systems.
- Postharvest, Processing & Quality: storage, loss reduction, processing technologies, product quality, and safety.
- Modeling & Analytics: process/statistical models, AI/ML applications, forecasting, risk/uncertainty analysis.
- Methodological & Integrative Papers
- Research methods/protocols, experimental design, assay validation, novel metrics/indices.
- Reviews and meta-analyses (narrative, scoping, systematic) that synthesize current evidence.
- Data papers/resources presenting curated datasets or reproducible tools of community value.
Systems & Geography. The journal welcomes studies from tropical and subtropical systems (global relevance encouraged), spanning smallholder to commercial scales and open-field, protected, peri-urban, or urban agriculture.
Generally Out of Scope. Submissions lacking scientific rigor (e.g., purely descriptive reports without analysis) or topics unrelated to agricultural systems will not be considered.
