Pesticide application methods /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- Chemical control in integrated pest management
- Targets for pesticide deposition
- Formulation of pesticides
- Spray droplets
- Hydraulic nozzles
- Manually carried sprayers
- Large-scale farm hydraulic sprayers
- Air-assisted sprayers for orchards
- Controlled droplet application
- Electrostatically charged sprays
- Aerial application
- Spray drift
- Seed treatment and granule application
- Space treatment by fogging
- Specialist application techniques (injection, fumigation and other techniques)
- Application of bio-pesticides
- Maintenance of equipment
- Safety precautions
- Equipment for laboratory and field trials
- Selection of spraying equipment for chemical and biological pesticides.