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Locust control handbook / Tahar Rachadi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rachadi, Tahar.
- Series:
- Guide pratique (Versailles, France)
- Guide pratique, 1952-2770
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Locusts--Control--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Locusts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Versailles Cedex : Éditions Quæ, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It is of paramount importance to improve application techniques when controlling locust outbreaks in developing countries.Most available documents and publications on locust control deal mainly with insecticides, rather than application techniques and the required control equipment.The present guide book is designed to make up for this oversight.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Spraying Principles
- Target and active ingredient
- Droplet dispersal and deposit
- Modes of spraying
- Droplet transport
- Assessment of spraying
- Spraying Equipment
- Portable equipment
- Vehicle-mounted sprayers
- Aerial equipment
- Acridid Control Treatments
- Intervention tactics
- Practice of treatments
- Inspection and optimization of control operations
- Conclusion
- References.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 1, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9782759208654
- 2759208656
- OCLC:
- 847619693
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