Pesticide Application Equipment for Use in Agriculture: Manually carried equipment

Pesticide Application Equipment for Use in Agriculture: Manually carried equipment
Author: G. A. Matthews
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789251035825

Describes the main types of manually-operated or manually-carried pesticide application equipment. Gives details of design and shows the type of nozzle needed to treat crops and to improve the safety and efficiency of the spraying operation.

Guidelines on Minimum Requirements for Agricultural Pesticide Application Equipment

Guidelines on Minimum Requirements for Agricultural Pesticide Application Equipment
Author: T. L. Wiles
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789251052457

The FAO minimum requirements in this publication are based on existing international, European and national standards and other published references. The guidelines provide a practical aid to assist purchasing and other agencies to avoid buying or approving sprayers with quality and design limitations, which could compromise operator and environmental safety. Member countries should adopt them immediately, to begin to eliminate substandard and unsafe sprayers from national markets and ultimately from the international scene.

Pesticide-application Equipment

Pesticide-application Equipment
Author: O. S. Bindra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1977
Genre: Aerial spraying and dusting in agriculture
ISBN:

Sprayers. Equipment for generating aerosols, smokes and vapours. Dusters. Agricultural aircraft. Miscellaneous pesticides-application equipment. Fundamentals of pesticide application. Formulations for concentrate and ULV sprayings. Pesticide drift and its control. Measurement of efficacay of pesticide application. Selection of a sprayer/duster and planning pesticide application. Operation and maintenance of pesticide-application equipment. Faults with common pesticide-application equipment and their remedies. Safety precautions in pesticides application. Pest-control appliances other than pesticide-application equipment.

Pesticide Application Equipment and Techniques

Pesticide Application Equipment and Techniques
Author: Norman Berndt Akesson
Publisher: Nicholson
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1979
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Origins of pest control formulations and application machines. Plant protection pesticides and application equipment. Liquid atomizers: design, theory, and use. Spray application machines. Spray applications to orchards and vines. Pesticide dust application equipment. Soil application equipment. Calibration of pesticides applicators. The benefits and use of plant protection machines. Safety considerations in the use of pesticide chemicals.

Pesticide Application Methods

Pesticide Application Methods
Author: Graham Matthews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118351304

PESTICIDE APPLICATION METHODS Pesticide Application Methods is the standard work for all those involved in crop protection. This fully revised and expanded edition provides up-to-date information on the different types of application techniques and how they should be used to ensure efficient and effective pest control. The third edition of this excellent book was published more than 10 years ago, since when a number of important developments have taken place. Examples include changes to legislation both in the EU and USA concerning water quality. This has an impact on how spray is applied and, more particularly, how the sprayer is designed to minimise quantities that remain in the equipment when spraying is completed, and in addition inform how and when the sprayer is cleaned. Concern about spray drift has also continued and has led to more research on how to reduce the amount of spray that moves downwind from a treated area. Important new information on this topic is included within the new edition. Professor Graham Matthews has been joined by two new co-authors to increase the breadth and depth of coverage in this updated edition of Pesticide Application Methods. This important new edition is a commercially significant reference tool and will be of great use and interest to all those working in crop protection, including agricultural entomologists and plant pathologists, pesticide scientists, advisors and consultants, large-scale growers, agricultural and horticultural scientists, agrochemical industry personnel including those involved in equipment supply and product formulation. Libraries in government and commercial research establishments, universities and agricultural colleges where agricultural and biological sciences are studied and taught should have multiple copies of this definitive book on their shelves.

Guidelines on Good Practice for Ground Application of Pesticides

Guidelines on Good Practice for Ground Application of Pesticides
Author:
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789251047187

These guidelines have been prepared to offer practical help and guidance to all those involved in using pesticides for food and fibre production as well as in public health programmes. The guidelines in this document cover the application of pesticides using any ground-based field crop sprayers, including operator-carried and tree and bush crop sprayers.

Application Of Pesticides To Crops

Application Of Pesticides To Crops
Author: Graham A Matthews
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999-11-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1911298127

Pesticides continue to provide an important tool in integrated pest management (IPM) programmes. Hitherto IPM programmes have had a strong bias towards insect control, but farmers need to control weeds, plant pathogens and other pest problems.This book follows the author's successful “pesticide application methods” by relating the equipment needs to the overall pest control requirement of major crops. It outlines the pest problems against which farmers are using pesticides and focusses on the details of the application techniques they need to optimise pesticide use.Much attention is now being given to genetically modified crops, but these do not necessarily avoid the use of pesticides. Some are engineered to be resistant to certain herbicides, so the use of these herbicides will still require careful application in order to minimise environmental side effects. Similarly, crops engineered for resistance to certain insect pest species may remain susceptible to other pests, thus emphasising the need for crop monitoring and careful use of any chemicals to avoid disrupting biological control.