Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope Journal

Focus

CULTIVATE: Journal of Agriculture Science is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality scientific research in agriculture and related disciplines. The journal aims to disseminate original research, theoretical developments, empirical findings, and practical innovations that contribute to the advancement of agricultural science, sustainable agricultural practices, and rural development.

The journal provides a platform for researchers, academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students to exchange scientific knowledge, develop innovative solutions, and address contemporary challenges in agricultural production, natural resource management, agricultural technology, and the social and economic dimensions of agriculture.

CULTIVATE: Journal of Agriculture Science is committed to maintaining academic quality, research integrity, editorial independence, and a transparent peer-review process. The journal encourages interdisciplinary research that supports sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation, food security, and the improvement of agricultural productivity and livelihoods.

Scope

CULTIVATE: Journal of Agriculture Science welcomes original research articles, review articles, and other scholarly manuscripts relevant to its aims and scope, including but not limited to the following areas:

1. Agronomy: Crop production, crop physiology, crop growth and development, cropping systems, crop rotation, plant breeding, seed science, weed management, integrated pest and disease management, and sustainable crop production technologies.

2. Soil Science: Soil fertility, soil chemistry, soil physics, soil biology, soil microbiology, soil conservation, soil degradation, soil erosion, nutrient management, fertilizer application, soil health assessment, and sustainable soil management.

3. Forestry and Agroforestry: Forest management, silviculture, forest ecology, forest conservation, forest resource management, agroforestry systems, tree-crop integration, biodiversity conservation, and the role of forests in sustainable agricultural landscapes.

4. Agricultural Management: Farm management, agricultural business management, production planning, farm financial management, agricultural supply chains, agricultural marketing, agricultural entrepreneurship, farm productivity, risk management, and decision-making in agricultural enterprises.

5. Agricultural Development: Agricultural development strategies, rural development, agricultural extension, farmer empowerment, institutional development, rural livelihoods, agricultural innovation adoption, community-based agricultural development, and policies supporting agricultural progress.

6. Agricultural Economics and Socioeconomic Studies: Agricultural economics, farm income analysis, production costs, economic efficiency, agricultural markets, price analysis, poverty alleviation, employment in agriculture, socioeconomic conditions of farming communities, and the economic impacts of agricultural policies.

7. Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management: Sustainable farming systems, organic agriculture, integrated farming, climate-smart agriculture, climate change adaptation and mitigation, natural resource conservation, agricultural waste management, biodiversity, and environmentally responsible agricultural practices.

8. Horticulture and Plantation Crops: Fruit production, vegetable cultivation, ornamental plants, plantation crops, crop propagation, horticultural crop management, postharvest handling, and innovations in horticultural and plantation production systems.

9. Agricultural Technology and Innovation: Precision agriculture, agricultural mechanization, smart farming, digital agriculture, agricultural information systems, irrigation technology, agricultural biotechnology, and the application of scientific and technological innovations to improve agricultural productivity and efficiency.

10. Plant Protection and Crop Health: Plant pathology, agricultural entomology, pest and disease diagnosis, biological control, integrated pest management, pesticide management, and environmentally sustainable approaches to protecting crops.

11. Agricultural Extension and Human Resource Development: Agricultural education, extension methods, farmer training, knowledge transfer, technology dissemination, farmer participation, human resource development, and the role of agricultural institutions in improving farming practices.

12. Agricultural Policy, Institutions, and Food Security: Agricultural policy analysis, land tenure, agrarian institutions, food security, food availability and accessibility, agricultural trade, government support for farmers, and the contribution of agriculture to national and regional development.

13. Land and Water Resources Management: Agricultural land evaluation, land-use planning, irrigation and drainage, watershed management, water conservation, land suitability assessment, and the sustainable utilization of land and water resources for agricultural production.

14. Postharvest Technology and Agricultural Products: Postharvest handling, storage, processing of agricultural products, quality evaluation, agricultural product diversification, value addition, supply chain efficiency, and the reduction of postharvest losses.

15. Interdisciplinary and Related Agricultural Sciences: Other interdisciplinary studies related to agricultural science, crop and soil management, forestry, agricultural development, rural communities, socioeconomic transformation, environmental sustainability, and emerging issues relevant to agriculture.

Editorial Considerations

Manuscripts submitted to CULTIVATE: Journal of Agriculture Science must demonstrate originality, methodological rigor, scientific relevance, and a clear contribution to existing knowledge in agriculture and related fields. Submissions should provide sound theoretical foundations, appropriate research methods, reliable data analysis, and meaningful implications for scientific advancement or agricultural practice.

All submissions are subject to editorial screening to assess their relevance to the journal's focus and scope, originality, and compliance with publication requirements. Manuscripts that meet the initial requirements may proceed to peer review in accordance with the journal's editorial policies.

The journal reserves the right to decline manuscripts that fall outside its focus and scope, fail to meet its minimum scholarly standards, contain significant methodological deficiencies, or do not comply with its publication ethics and submission policies.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

• CULTIVATE : Journal of Agriculture Science applies editorial screening and peer review to evaluate the quality, originality, relevance, and methodological rigor of submitted manuscripts.

  1. Initial Editorial Screening

  Upon submission, the editorial team checks whether the manuscript:

  • Falls within the journal's aims and scope.

  • Meets the basic requirements of the Author Guidelines.

  • Presents an appropriate level of scholarly quality.

  • Contains the necessary declarations and supporting information.

  • Raises apparent concerns regarding originality, research ethics, or publication integrity.

  The editor may reject a manuscript at this stage if it is unsuitable for the journal or does not meet the minimum requirements for further consideration.

  2. Peer Review

  Manuscripts that pass initial screening may be sent to independent reviewers with relevant subject expertise.

  CULTIVATE uses a double-blind peer review or double-anonymous peer review. The journal should state the actual review model consistently across its website and submission system.

  Reviewers assess the manuscript's originality, theoretical foundation, research design, analytical procedures, interpretation of results, contribution to the field, clarity, and references.

  3. Reviewers' Recommendations

  Reviewers may recommend:

  • Acceptance.

  • Minor revision.

  • Major revision.

  • Rejection.

  These recommendations are advisory. The editor makes the final decision after considering the reviewers' assessments, the manuscript's quality, and the journal's editorial standards.

  4. Revision Process

  Authors receiving a revision decision must submit a revised manuscript and a point-by-point response to the reviewers' comments within the deadline specified by the editorial office.

  Authors should explain how each comment has been addressed. If they disagree with a recommendation, they should provide a reasoned academic explanation.

  A revised manuscript may be returned to the original reviewers or evaluated by the editor, depending on the nature of the revisions.

  5. Editorial Decision

  The editor may accept, request further revision, or reject the manuscript. Acceptance is granted only after the editor determines that the manuscript meets the journal's requirements.

  6. Confidentiality and Impartiality

  Editors and reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents. Unpublished information must not be used for personal advantage.

  Reviewers should disclose relevant conflicts of interest and decline assignments where impartiality cannot reasonably be maintained.

  7. Review Integrity

  Attempts to manipulate peer review, provide false reviewer identities, interfere with editorial decisions, or improperly influence reviewers may result in rejection and further action under the journal's publication ethics policies.

  8. Review Duration

  Review duration may vary according to reviewer availability, subject complexity, revision requirements, and editorial workload. The journal does not guarantee a fixed review period.

  All editorial decisions are intended to be based on scholarly merit, ethical standards, and the journal's scope.

Publication Frequency

CULTIVATE: Journal of Agriculture Science Published twice a year in March and September

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.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Penulis.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (Refer to The Effect of Open Access).

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Ethic

Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editor 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 editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

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.

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.

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.

Duties of Reviewers

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Duties of Authors

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 behavior and are unacceptable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Article Processing Charges

CULTIVATE: Journal of Agriculture Science charges the following author fees.

Article Publication: 350.000.00 (IDR)