The Syngenta-UPC Business Chair (www.catedrasyngenta.upc.edu) was formally established in July 2013 and is focused on the innovation and improvement of best management practices in pesticide application. The Chair consolidates ...

Air assisted sprayers (mist blowers) is the most common technology used for pesticide application in vineyards. An accurate calibration process is always requested to obtai n a uniform distribution, avoiding ...

La producción de hortalizas en invernadero es una actividad económica muy importante en España. Actualmente, los tratamientos en estos cultivos se realizan mayoritariamente mediante pistolas ...

Drift is one of the major problems affecting the efficiency of spray application, and its effect in environmental contamination is especially important during the plant protection products use-phase in orchards and vineyard ...

Spray application technologies for specialty crops have developed considerably in recent years with regard to improved control, reduced cost, and ability to avoid environmental contamination. For example, new developments ...

Introduction Hand-held spray guns and lances are the most widely used methods of crop protection in greenhouses despite the heavy workload and high risk of operator exposure associated with these techniques (Foqué 2012).

Sprayer types, as well as working parameters, have direct influence on the amount of spray retained on the canopy. This research was focused on the quantification of spray amount that exceeded the last canopy row during ...