Chemical Management and Treatment of Agriculture and Food Industries Wastes

Agriculture and related industries are one of the most strategic sectors for many countries. Agricultural residues are obtained from crops and livestock residues. Currently, the worldwide total harvest areas of cereals, primary oil crops, pulses, roots and tubers, and primary fiber crops are around 721.4×10, 301.9×10, 85.2×10, 61.9×10, and 37.7×10 ha, respectively. $e worldwide industrial production of raw centrifugal sugar, molasses, oil palm, and oil soybean is around 176.9×10, 61.0×10, 57.3×10, and 45.7×10 tones, respectively. In general, the agrofood industry is increasingly modern and automated with a single objective that is to increase its production to meet the needs of the market and fulfil the economic objectives. Parallel to these agricultural and industrial activities, large volumes of solid and liquid residues are generated that present a serious environmental problem in the case of not being well treated or managed. Considering the current social and scientific development, all these residues nowadays can be transformed to by-products with the aim to be reused as a new product useful to the society. $e special issue covers a very wide field as the agrofood industries generate various wastes, and there are an infinite number of applications and possible reuses of such wastes. In our initial proposal, we have tried to establish the state of the art for the agricultural and food industries residues, either in the solid or liquid state. $e special issue has indicated that welcome manuscripts about the management and treatment methods of solid and liquid wastes and special attention will be given to works about the valorization of wastes as a source for sustainable bioenergy, water recirculation, and waste composting, where conventional and unconventional techniques are used. In addition, methods for the exploitation of forest and municipal wood wastes for energy generation will also be considered. In addition, potential topics to accept have been indicated. By way of example, it has been pointed the following: