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Pesticides continue to be a major means of controlling pests and diseases of crops and have made a major contribution to increasing the world's food production. Despite the problem of developing pest and disease resistance to certain pesticides, and public concern about their indiscriminate use and side-effects, they are likely to remain the basis of integrated pest management programmes. This book seeks to demonstrate that there is scope to improve both the safety and efficiency of crop protection methods.

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Author:   Graham Matthews (Professor Emeritus, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London, UK) ,  E. C. Hislop (AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research, Long Ashton Research Station, UK) ,  E. C. Hislop (AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research, Long Ashton Research Station, UK) ,  E. C. Hislop (AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research, Long Ashton Research Station, UK)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.792kg
ISBN:  

9780851988344

ISBN 10:   0851988342
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 August 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: General Issues 1: Application technology for crop protection: An introduction, E C Hislop 2: Safety aspects and legislation trends, H Pfalzer 3: Droplet production, A H Lefebvre Part II: Methods of Assessment 4: Methods for measuring spray droplet sizes, C S Parkin 5: Spray tracing techniques, B K Cooke and E C Hislop 6: Spray drift and its measurement, P C H Miller 7: Operator exposure to pesticides, G Chester Part III: Application techniques 8: Application to field crops: Manually carried equipment, G A Matthews 9: Large-scale ground-based application techniques, T H Robinson 10: Application to plantation crops, F R Hall 11: Aerial application to ground crops, A Lavers 12: Aerial application to forests, J W Barry 13: Glasshouse treatment, R K Lindquist, C C Powell and F R Hall 14: Adjuvants in spray formulation in relation to foliar application of herbicides, P N P Chow 15: Insecticide application in stores, G A Matthews 16: Chemigation, C C Dowler 17: Seed treatment, P B Clayton

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Graham Matthews was a research entomologist in Africa from 1958 -1967 working on cotton in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Nysasland. He joined Imperial College in 1967 but was seconded to Malawi from 1968-72. He has since been involved with cotton during visits to many countries in Africa, including Egypt, Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire, and to India Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China and Australia. His research has been primarily on pesticide application technology, extending from agriculture to vector control.

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