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Some Aspects of New Technology for Protection of Field Crops in Poland (Machinery and Techniques) 1
Author(s) -
WACHOWIAK M.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1983.tb01658.x
Subject(s) - sunflower , sprayer , agronomy , sugar beet , sowing , crop , crop protection , biology , environmental science
The Institute for Plant Protection at Poznan (Poland) examines the biological efficacy of new plant protection equipment or techniques. Examples of recent studies include: 1) a sprayer with a lateral reach of up to 40 m under favourable conditions, which has been successfully used on crops liable to mechanical damage from traditional tractor sprayers (oilseed rape at flowering, field bean, seed crops of sugar beet and onion, sunflower, maize); 2)equipment for spraying potatoes against Thanatephorus cucumeris at the time of planting; 3) use of passage‐ways for sprayers in cereal crops, results having shown that spraying from passage‐ways gives better biological results and that adjoining plants compensate the losses due to absence of plants in the passage‐ways.