best management practices to reduce pesticide pollution of water from spray drift

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Best Management Practices to reduce spray drift

SPRAYDRIFT

Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin, Domaine de l‘EspiguetteF - 30240 LE GRAU DU ROI, France

Research Institute of Horticulture Konstytucji 3 Maja 1/3, 96-100 Skierniewice, Poland

Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpfl anzenMesseweg 11 –12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany

Inagro vzwIeperseweg 878800 Rumbeke-Beitem, Belgium

Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, C/ Jordi Girona, 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

Knowledge Centre for Agriculture Agro Food Park 158200 Aarhus N, Denmark

Dipartimento di Economica e Ingeneria Agraria Forestale e Ambientale (DEIAFA),Università di Torino –Via Leonardo da Vinci 44, Grugliasco (TO), Italy

Precondition: APPLICATION SITEDistance between the sensitive area and the spray application site

Spraying within the zone of awareness (buffer zone + boom width)

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BMP No. Category What to do How to do it: specification

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Fig. 13: Cannon sprayer, very vulnerable to drift.

Fig. 15: Deflector nozzle.

European Crop Protection AssociationE.C.P.A.6 Avenue E. Van Nieuwenhuyse,B-1160 Brussels, Belgium.tel: +32 2 663 15 50 fax: +32 2 663 15 60ecpa@ecpa.eu