Pesticide Application Technology in Cropping Systems
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2024) | Viewed by 8249
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant protection machinery; pesticide application technology; intelligent spraying system; electrostatic spraying; atomizing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pesticide application plays a leading role in the control of plant pests, but improper pesticide application causes a series of concerns, which is one of the most imperative challenges for agro-forestry production, including resistance to pesticides, environmental pollution, limit acceptability of pesticide residues, etc. Therefore, pesticide application technology has been widely studied around the world.
This Special Issue focuses on building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research experiences and develop new ideas and research directions. As environment-friendly and intelligent pesticide application technology is of crucial importance, this Special Issue will include the identification of pest targets, pesticide spraying and dusting, pesticide injection, pesticide mopping and painting, fumigation treatment, pest baits application, and pesticide seed treatment. In addition, it will include the key technologies for pesticide spraying systems, such as atomizing and nozzles, inline mixing, variable-rate technology, droplet drift control, electrostatic spraying, and intelligent profiling and targeting spraying.
The Special Issue will create a collection of papers on “Pesticide Application Technology in Cropping Systems”. We would like to invite scholars and researchers to contribute original and high-quality research articles, review articles as well as cutting-edge research opinions to this peer-reviewed Special Issue in the journal Agriculture.
Prof. Dr. Jiaqiang Zheng
Prof. Dr. Youlin Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pest control
- plant protection machinery
- pesticide application technology
- intelligent spraying system
- variable-rate technology
- pesticide atomizing and nozzles
- pesticide inline mixing
- droplet drift control
- electrostatic spraying
- cropping system
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