Pesticides are essential for removing plant pests and sustaining good yields on agricultural
land. Excessive use has detrimental repercussions, such as the depletion of soil fertility and …

There is a steady increase in smartphone apps available to improve farmers' decision
making with respect to crop protection. While current studies have focused on smartphone …

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has expanded to include UAV
sprayers capable of applying pesticides. Very little research has been conducted to optimize …

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a broad‐based approach for addressing pests that
negatively affect human and environmental health and economic profitability. Weeds …

The overuse of pesticides is critically important for the environment because of
contamination. The correct use of pesticides requires spraying optimization on the intended …

Previous work sought to compare the results from imaging software for characterising
droplet coverage, but none exists examining these five software programs: Droplet Scan® …

BACKGROUND Leaf wall area (LWA) has been proposed as an appropriate dose
expression for field testing of plant protection products (PPPs) applied via foliar spray in …

Machine Learning (ML) techniques can be used to convert Big Data into valuable
information for agri-environmental applications, such as predictive pest modeling. Lobesia …

A critical issue in the context of sustainable agriculture is the reduction of pesticides. Despite
well-known adverse effects, farmers around the world continue using pesticides with mostly …

The use of insecticides to control agricultural pests has resulted in resistance developing to
most known insecticidal modes of action. Strategies by which resistance can be slowed are …