Recycling tunnel sprayer for pesticide dose adjustment to the crop environment

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 409-413

  Ade, Giorgio ^a   Molari, Giovanni ^a   Rondelli, Valda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air assisted sprayers; Deposit; Losses; Recycling; Spraying; Tunnel sprayers

Indexed keywords

AIR ASSISTED SPRAYERS; TUNNEL SPRAYERS;

CROPS; FLOW RATE; PESTICIDES; SPRAYING; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

CROP; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; RECYCLING; SPRAY; TUNNEL; VINEYARD;

AGRICULTURE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MACHINERY; SPRAYERS;

EID: 34347218243     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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