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Esperienze di applicazione con atomizzatore a torretta e ventilatore spento in frutteto semi-pedonale
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Applicazioni localizzate alla parte basale del tronco per il controllo dell’afide lanigero del melo (Eriosoma lanigerum)
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Case study on “Centralizing sprayer cleaning management”
No full textThe region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, which includes the two autonomous provinces
of Bolzano and Trento, is one of the most productive fruit-growing areas in Italy. Grapevine
cultivation is also particularly important.
The average farm size is very small, so the number of sprayers is high and there is a higher
concentration of spray equipment, especially in the areas where farming the land is the
main activity.
A survey carried out during the EIP-Agri “Pflanzenschutz” Operational Group confirms that,
among fruit growers, the washing of the sprayer and the tractor at the end of the treatment
is more frequent at the farm centre rather than in the field and, that among the interviewed
farmers, there is a high preference of managing the equipment washing in collectively
organized areas.
The high number of sprayers, the distance between farm and collective washing stations,
the initial investment and management costs, seem to be the main critical points that need to
be evaluated for any type of solution. However, the several advantages offered by collective
systems should lay the foundation for the creation of pilot devices, which would also help
studying and searching for solutions to maximize their rational and efficient us
Combining training system and anti-drift application technique to improve deposit quality in narrow-wall orchards
No full textPedestrian apple orchard is a new apple tree cultivation system on which is focused the
EIP MePS. The acronym MePS refers to a project organized around the subject of European
Innovation, which involves Edmund Mach Foundation, Fruit and Vegetables Farmers
Cooperation of Trentino (APOT) and Fruit Innovation Centre (CIF). This project has the aim
of creating a sustainable apple orchard prototype, through which technical functionality and
economic sustainability must be evaluated in order to maximize environmental sustainability
in apple growing. One of the advantages of this narrow-wall orchard is the flexibility in
the choice of plant protection products application technique. The experimental tests here
described aimed to evaluate the chance offered by narrow-wall trained plants to treat without
air assistence in order to reduce application environmental impact. Simplifying the plant
structure, it is possible to have satisfactory results on crop deposits even with the adoption
of basic techniques and equipments that can reduce spray drift
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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