An apparatus to inject soil fumigants under raised, plastic-mulched beds

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 585-589

  Chellemi, Dan O ^a   Mirusso, John ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Mirusso Fumigation and Equipment   (United States)

Author keywords

1,3 dichloropropene; Chloropicrin; Low density polyethylene plastic mulch; Soil fumigation; Virtually impermeable plastic mulch

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AGRICULTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITION; CROPS; FILMS; FUMIGATION; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MIXTURES; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

BED FUMIGATOR; CHLOROPICRIN; DICHLOROPROPENE; FUMIGANT MIXTURE; PLASTIC MULCHED BEDS; SOIL FUMIGANTS; VIRTUALLY IMPERMEABLE PLASTIC MULCH;

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 10244249202     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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