Drift reduction technology

Multinational companies have shown interest in the development of application technologies, but commitment has not been sustained where intellectual property rights (IPR) in large markets could not be established. Disappointingly few farmers worldwide are aware of alternatives to conventional hydraulic sprayers, which inefficiently use large volumes of water, but remain by far the most important method of pesticide application. Worse still, recent emphasis in application research has focused on the reduction of spray drift (especially in Europe and North America). The most common solution to be implemented to date has been to increase droplet size spectra (without necessarily improving spray quality) thus spray application has probably become generally more inefficient. 

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