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Modern Spraying Techniques For Grape Vineyards: A Review

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Abhinab Mishra, Kishore Chandra Swain
ยป doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.10.2024.524-540

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During crop production, the most crucial techniques are being used for plant protection. Applying pesticides requires much more expertise and understanding than any other agricultural job, regardless of the crop being treated or the tools utilised. This is particularly applied to insect, disease, and mite control sprays in grapevines. The significant changes in canopy features (variety, height, and row to row spacing) create hindrance in spraying as it is difficult to reach top and bottom side of the grapevine. Because of this, the spraying of vineyards requires more managerial expertise and experience than spraying of the field crops. Evolution in spraying technology has been seen in recent years. Advancement of robotics and automated spraying technologies viz. the use of pneumatic sprayers, UAV sprayers, and variable rate sprayers, have attracted more interest. These cutting-edge spraying techniques effectively safeguard the environment lowering labor costs, spray losses and health hazards during pesticide application to the vineyards while extensive research is still awaited.

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