title: Spray drift reduction under Southern European conditions: a pilot study in the Ecopest Project in Greece.
abstract: The objective of this work was to generate spray drift data from pesticide application in the field comparing spray drift from traditional equipment with emerging, anti-drift technologies. The applications were carried out in the Kopais area in central Greece. Currently few data exist as regards to pesticide spray drift in Southern European conditions. This work details the data for ground and airborne deposition of spray drift using the methodology developed in the UK by the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA). Three trials were performed in two days using sunset yellow dye which deposited on dosimeters placed at specific distances from the edge of the sprayer boom. The application was carried out with a tractor mounted boom sprayer, which was of local manufacture, as were the nozzles of Trial I, being flat fan brass nozzles. For Trials II and III anti-drift nozzles were used. The boom sprayers were used with the settings as employed by the farmers for the routine pesticide applications. The results of this work indicate that drift was significantly reduced when anti-drift nozzles were utilized.
authors.affiliation: Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Laboratory of Pesticides Toxicology, 8 St. Delta Street, Kifissia 14561, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Konstantinos M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kasiotis
authors.affiliation: Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK.
authors.forename: C Richard
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Glass
authors.affiliation: Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Laboratory of Pesticides Toxicology, 8 St. Delta Street, Kifissia 14561, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Angelos N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Tsakirakis
authors.affiliation: Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Laboratory of Pesticides Toxicology, 8 St. Delta Street, Kifissia 14561, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: k.machera@bpi.gr.
authors.forename: Kyriaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Machera
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006115:Greece; D008956:Models, Chemical; D010575:Pesticides / Q000032:analysis*; D010865:Pilot Projects
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D010575:Pesticides
keywords: Airborne; Ground deposition; Nozzles; Pesticides; Spectrophotometry; Spray drift