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When efficiency matters... can organic fruit production benefit from "Low Loss Crop Protection"?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Triloff, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Official drift reduction with air induction nozzles is not an option for most of the professional fruit growers since large droplets and high water volumes prevent the utilization of modern, highly efficient spray application methods with all their advantages. Low Loss Crop Protection as a solution combining all the advantages from small droplets and low water volumes with a drift reduction in the range of air induction nozzles comes as a package of a) orchard sprayers with optimized air distribution, providing uniform horizontal reach and adjusted to farm specific tree height. The adjustment of a rectangular air distribution at a test bench and its adaptation to canopy width during spraying is the key for making use of essential advantages from small droplets and low volumes of which especially an increased efficiency of spray cover formation, a reduced risk for phytotox and minimized fuel consumption can be most interesting for organic production. b) an electronic field book calculating all parameters required for dosing and application of the selected pesticides in the desired orchard blocks, runs a pre spray check of any electronically surveillable statutory requirement from registration for any product in any orchard block and after the treatment documents the spray complying with all current quality assurance systems, c) training for all participants of “Low Loss Crop Protection” as for i. the staff doing the air distribution measurements with the test bench ii. the manufacturers through a close cooperation and an annual workshop where new developments are discussed and decided upon mandatory implementation iii. the grower who is trained continuously at any occasion as meetings, workshops, seminars, before purchasing a new sprayer, during the air adjustments, farm visits, etc.. Since for organic fruit production all the advantages of “Low Loss Crop Protection” are even more important especially fuel consumption and phytotoxicity than for conventional production it is assumed that organic fruit production can substantially benefit from this technique. |
| Starting Page | 175 |
| Ending Page | 182 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ecofruit.net/2014/26SC_Triloff_low_loss_crop_protection_p175-182.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
