Vineyard evaluation of a recycling tunnel sprayer

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2105-2112

  Ade, G ^a   Molari, G ^a   Rondelli, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deposit; Losses; Recycling; Spraying; Tunnel sprayer

Indexed keywords

AIR; GROWTH KINETICS; LOSSES; SOILS; SPRAYING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AIR-BLAST; DEPOSIT; DISTRIBUTION QUALITY; TUNNEL SPRAYER;

RECYCLING;

PESTICIDE;

EID: 32244435044     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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