A new Editor appointed - Prof Francis Kumi

Prof. Francis Kumi is an academic, researcher, and Professional Engineer with considerable expertise in agricultural mechanisation, machinery systems, sustainable engineering, and technology development. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where he currently serves as Head of the Department of Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering.

He holds a PhD in Agricultural Mechanization Engineering from Jiangsu University, China, and is a Professional Engineer with the Ghana Institution of Engineering. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Ghana Institution of Engineering, contributing to scholarly publishing, peer review, and the advancement of engineering research.

Prof. Kumi’s research interests span agricultural machinery design and performance evaluation, farm mechanisation, tillage systems, soil–machine interactions, irrigation engineering, precision and intelligent agriculture, crop-processing technologies, renewable-energy applications in agriculture, and sustainable engineering solutions for smallholder farming systems.

He has authored and co-authored more than 50 scholarly publications in peer-reviewed journals, with his work attracting growing international visibility and citations. His publications address important engineering and agricultural challenges, including machinery development, mechanisation systems, tillage and crop performance, irrigation technologies, automated transplanting, crop-residue management, postharvest engineering, and sustainable agricultural production.