Advanced Technology for the Development of Agricultural Sprays
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 2800
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural machines; pesticide applications (nozzle, sprayers, distribution uniformity, spray drift, worker exposure); mechanical distribution of natural enemies; safety in agriculture (noise and vibrations both in field and food-industry plants); post-harvest (packing lines, mechanical fruit damage); sustainable agriculture (anaerobic digestion plants, biomasses, digestate spreading, erosion, sod-seeding)
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Interests: pesticide application (foliar deposition, ground losses, worker exposure, spray quality); post-harvest (packing lines, mechanical fruit damage); worker safety (noise and vibration exposure); renewable energies (anaerobic digestion plants, digestate spreading)
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Interests: precision agriculture; modelling; sensors; remote sensing; crop stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The incorporation of sustainable measures in conducting human activities is garnering increasing importance due to their potential to mitigate climate change and environmental pollution. Specifically, the agricultural sector is one of the biggest contributors to these negative aspects considering its impact on the release of CO2 into the atmosphere, and on the amount of water, chemical fertilizers and Plant Protection Products (PPPs) used. In particular, spraying PPPs, even at the regulatory level, is recognized as one of the most significant agricultural activities which adversely impacts human health and the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate advanced technologies in the field of agricultural sprays, as well as increase the knowledge of the users, in order to adequately recognize pests and diseases, perform localized treatments, reduce drift and ground losses, and limit the workers’ exposure.
This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent studies, including original research, opinions, and reviews, on the technical solutions and methods adopted for the application of PPPs in order to improve the quality, effectiveness, and sustainability of this agricultural operation. To this end, this Special Issue invites submissions of interdisciplinary quality studies from a wide array of research fields including agriculture, engineering design, calculation and modeling, landscaping, environmentalism, as well as ergonomics and occupational risk prevention.
Dr. Giuseppe Ezio Manetto
Dr. Emanuele Cerruto
Dr. Juan Miguel Ramírez-Cuesta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pesticides
- sustainability
- precision agriculture
- nozzle spray analysis
- spray modeling
- spray drift
- operator exposure
- risk assessment
- sprayer calibration
- UAV
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