Jointly published with INRA, Paris. Pesticide resistance is becoming more frequent and widespread with more than 500 insect species known to have become resistant to synthetic insecticides. On the other hand, consumers increasingly demand agricultural products without any pesticide residues. This book, for the first time, shows the alternative: solely physical methods for plant protection by means of thermal, electromagnetic, mechanical and vacuum processes. A glossary rounds up this extremely valuable book.Another was designed to completely dry the product, by heating the product in a vacuum chamber and removing the excess ... A tractor-mounted microwave apparatus for soil sterilisation was developed several years ago in France ( Thourelanbsp;...
Title | : | Physical Control Methods in Plant Protection |
Author | : | Charles Vincent, Bernhard Panneton, Francis Fleurat-Lessard |
Publisher | : | Springer Science & Business Media - 2013-06-29 |
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