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Guidelines on organization of schemes for testing and certification of agricultural pesticide sprayers in use

Year of publication 2001

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 25 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

ISBN 92-5-104721-9

Synopsis (short abstract) The guidelines in this document are addressing government officials in plant protection, environmental and other concerned authorities. They cover the testing and certification of the sprayers currently applying pesticides on commercial farms. The series addresses an urgent need in many countries to ensure that where pesticides are used in crop production, they are applied through equipment, which is safe and fully functional. The issue applies to aircraft, large, field crop and orchard spraye rs as well as to operator-carried equipment.

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