Benefits of using a spray control system

Applying pesticides and other agricultural chemicals (such as fertilizers and growth

regulators) with an electrostatic low-volume spraying system provides the farmers with

several benefits, including increased spray efficiency, increased spray efficacy, lower

economic prices, greater safety and less damage to the environment. Some benefits of

agricultural sprayers are:

Greater spray efficiency: Electrostatic low-volume sprayers (Knapsack Power

Sprayer) use less water and cover more area per hour than conventional dilute

sprayers. This saves time and allows the farmers to treat a large number of farmland

everyday.

Greater spray efficacy: Electrostatic Power Sprayer actually charge ultra-fine

droplets of spray material with a negative electric charge. The charged spray particles

square measure drawn to the plant and to the target pest. This is a more effective

method than sprays that are applied with a large volume of water but do not cover the

entire plant surface.

Economic savings: Battery Operated Sprayer save time and provide better

coverage, the overall cost per acre is less than with higher volume dilute sprayers. They

use an average of 70% less fuel and 25% less pesticide per acre than non-electrostatic

dilute sprayers, and application costs an average 20% less per acre.

Development of new automated systems for agricultural machinery helps to improve

competitiveness and sustainability in agriculture with a positive impact on the quality of

yields. The main advantage deriving from the assisted driving in a self-propelled

sprayer with a GPS enabled guidance system associated with a control system of

sectors of the boom is overlap elimination (i.e. the interruption of the distribution of

a crop protection product over areas already treated in a previous path, and the

interruption of the distribution over areas that do not require any treatment (edges of

the field, etc.). It must be emphasized that for operations that involve the use of

external inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, etc., the application of this modern

technology allows the recording of power sprayer paths and product consumption and

as a consequence, provides an economic analysis of the sprayer operation.