Livia Paleari, Ermes Movedi, Marco Foi, Andrea Pilatti, Fosco M Vesely, Chiara Rusconi, Lucio Brancadoro, Stefano Poni, Jacopo Bacenetti, Roberto Confalonieri
There is a growing demand for technologies able to decrease the environmental impact of agricultural activities without penalizing quali-quantitative characteristics of productions. In the case of viticulture, one of the key problems is represented by the spray drift during fungicide treatments. The diffusion in operational farming contexts of technologies based on variable-rate and recycling tunnel sprayers is often limited by their cost and, for the latter, by their size and lower maneuverability, representing clear disadvantages especially in case of small farms or in hilly and mountain areas...
January 27, 2024: Science of the Total Environment