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Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits
Reducing risk from pesticide applications has been gaining serious attention in the last few decades due to the significant damage to human health, environment, and ecosystems. Pesticide applications are an essential part of current agriculture, enhancing cultivated crop productivity and quality and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34066785 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21093262 |
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author | Mahmud, Md Sultan Zahid, Azlan He, Long Martin, Phillip |
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description | Reducing risk from pesticide applications has been gaining serious attention in the last few decades due to the significant damage to human health, environment, and ecosystems. Pesticide applications are an essential part of current agriculture, enhancing cultivated crop productivity and quality and preventing losses of up to 45% of the world food supply. However, inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides is a major rising concern. Precision spraying addresses these concerns by precisely and efficiently applying pesticides to the target area and substantially reducing pesticide usage while maintaining efficacy at preventing crop losses. This review provides a systematic summary of current technologies used for precision spraying in tree fruits and highlights their potential, briefly discusses factors affecting spraying parameters, and concludes with possible solutions to reduce excessive agrochemical uses. We conclude there is a critical need for appropriate sensing techniques that can accurately detect the target. In addition, air jet velocity, travel speed, wind speed and direction, droplet size, and canopy characteristics need to be considered for successful droplet deposition by the spraying system. Assessment of terrain is important when field elevation has significant variability. Control of airflow during spraying is another important parameter that needs to be considered. Incorporation of these variables in precision spraying systems will optimize spray decisions and help reduce excessive agrochemical applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-81259412021-05-17 Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits Mahmud, Md Sultan Zahid, Azlan He, Long Martin, Phillip Sensors (Basel) Review Reducing risk from pesticide applications has been gaining serious attention in the last few decades due to the significant damage to human health, environment, and ecosystems. Pesticide applications are an essential part of current agriculture, enhancing cultivated crop productivity and quality and preventing losses of up to 45% of the world food supply. However, inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides is a major rising concern. Precision spraying addresses these concerns by precisely and efficiently applying pesticides to the target area and substantially reducing pesticide usage while maintaining efficacy at preventing crop losses. This review provides a systematic summary of current technologies used for precision spraying in tree fruits and highlights their potential, briefly discusses factors affecting spraying parameters, and concludes with possible solutions to reduce excessive agrochemical uses. We conclude there is a critical need for appropriate sensing techniques that can accurately detect the target. In addition, air jet velocity, travel speed, wind speed and direction, droplet size, and canopy characteristics need to be considered for successful droplet deposition by the spraying system. Assessment of terrain is important when field elevation has significant variability. Control of airflow during spraying is another important parameter that needs to be considered. Incorporation of these variables in precision spraying systems will optimize spray decisions and help reduce excessive agrochemical applications. MDPI 2021-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8125941/ /pubmed/34066785 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21093262 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Mahmud, Md Sultan Zahid, Azlan He, Long Martin, Phillip Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits |
title | Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits |
title_full | Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits |
title_fullStr | Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits |
title_full_unstemmed | Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits |
title_short | Opportunities and Possibilities of Developing an Advanced Precision Spraying System for Tree Fruits |
title_sort | opportunities and possibilities of developing an advanced precision spraying system for tree fruits |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125941/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34066785 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21093262 |
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