Graham Matthews, Roy Bateman, Paul Miller

Pesticide Application Methods

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pesticide Application Methods is the standard work on the subject for all those involved in crop protection. This fully updated Fourth Edition takes account of the considerable changes in legislation, especially within the European Union, affecting some pesticides and how they can be applied. With greater emphasis now on protecting the environment, an additional chapter in this edition describes the importance of managing treatments to minimise spray drift, and the chapter on applying biopesticides has been updated, with the assistance of Paul Miller and Roy Bateman respectively.

Basic information on the role of pesticides in integrated pest management is given with a discussion on the importance of defining the target and choice of spray spectrum to optimise delivery. The range of droplets and types of equipment for different methods of application, including seed treatment, are described with information on safe use and maintenance.

Pesticide Application Methods, 4th Edition, provides an essential reference for all those involved in crop protection, including entomologists, plant pathologists, weed scientists and agricultural engineers, whether researchers, consultants or those training in international, government or academic organisations, or the plant science industry. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where agricultural and biological sciences are studied or taught should have copies of this excellent new edition on their shelves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 4. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1066g
• ISBN-13: 9781118351307
• ISBN-10: 1118351304
• Artikelnr.: 40054451

Autorenporträt

G. A. Matthews is Emeritus Professor at the International Pesticide Application Research Centre, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, UK. Graham has authored several books for Wiley Blackwell including Pesticides (2006) and Integrated Vector Management (2011). He is a world-renowned expert in methods of pest control. Roy Bateman is Visiting Lecturer at the International Pesticide Application Research Centre, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, UK, as well as at Harper Adams University, UK, and Nong Lam University, Vietnam. Roy is also Chair of the British Crop Production Council's Expert Working Group on Application Methods. Paul Miller is Head of the Spray Applications Unit at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany at Silsoe, Bedford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to fourth edition vii Acknowledgements xi Conversion tables xiii
Pesticide calculation xv Units, abbreviations and symbols xvi 1 Chemical
control in integrated pest management 1 2 Targets for pesticide deposition
23 3 Formulation of pesticides 63 4 Spray droplets 91 5 Hydraulic nozzles
125 6 Manually carried hydraulic sprayers 159 7 Power-operated hydraulic
sprayers 181 8 Air-assisted sprayers 215 9 Controlled droplet application
245 10 Electrostatically charged sprays 275 11 Aerial application 299 12
Spray drift 337 13 Seed treatment, dust and granule application 363 14
Space treatment by fogging 381 15 Specialist application techniques
(injection, fumigation and other techniques) 399 16 Application of
biopesticides 411 17 Maintenance of equipment 429 18 Safety precautions 443
19 Equipment for laboratory and field trials 471 20 Selection of
application equipment for chemical and biological pesticides 487 Appendix:
standards relating to pesticide application 499 Index 503 Colour plate
section 1 falls between pages 174 and 175 Colour plate section 2 falls
between pages 254 and 255