Vibrant lights within the fields of Lithuania: when bees sleep, farmers work Enterprise

Night time spray

“Such an evening present is nothing greater than the spraying of rapeseed fields, carried out with the assistance of superior expertise – self-propelled sprayers are essentially the most handy for this work. Outfitted with highly effective lights, these agricultural machines enable farmers to work effectively and safely even in the dead of night. Superior farms have already taken a liking to fashionable Agrifac. With shiny lights illuminating the sphere, the operator has no drawback seeing the street clearly and avoiding obstacles, corresponding to timber, electrical poles or different objects,” mentioned Algimantas Gyvis, consultant product supervisor of the corporate Dotnuva Baltic, which provides farmers with this method.

The lengthy distance from the bottom to the underside of the sprayer lets you drive by way of the canola with out damaging it and retains the crops from lodging, he mentioned. Exact spraying optimizes the usage of water and chemical substances, saving sources and decreasing the unfavourable influence on the surroundings. All this helps guarantee a greater yield.

When and why ought to crops be sprayed at night time?

Night time spraying is carried out with a view to defend bees and different bugs that actively go to the flowers of rapeseed and different flowering crops through the day. In Lithuania, as in different superior international locations, with a view to defend bees and different bugs, flowering fields are allowed to be sprayed solely in the dead of night – from 10 p.m. till 4 o’clock within the night morning This restriction applies solely through the flowering interval, when bees actively go to rape blossoms. Anticipated night time sprays have to be pre-registered.

Based on the farmers, the bees fall asleep round 21:00, then they’ll exit to the fields to spray. Though sprayed plant safety merchandise aren’t fatally dangerous to bees, nightly spraying not solely protects their well being, however we ourselves eat more healthy honey.

Advanced options

“What’s necessary for a farmer is an entire resolution that may assist him carry out work extra effectively. Due to this fact, we suggest that you just equip a drone for discipline inspection together with a self-propelled sprayer,” mentioned Mykolas Treigys, supervisor of Nando droid. Based on him, that is very true after injury attributable to pure components or animals. Along with inspection, it’s also necessary to have the ability to make the NDVI index of the fields, which can assist to evaluate the vitality of the crops, to create a variable price map, which is normally loaded into sprayers and helps to cut back the price of spray options.

“Moreover, having a spraying drone is a lifesaver even after rains, whenever you can not enter the fields and work must be completed. For this, we suggest the fashionable and highly effective agrodrone “Agras T50″, which can assist to fill this time hole, which is at all times valuable to farmers, when the self-propelled sprayer will be unable to enter the fields, by performing the duties assigned to them”, mentioned M. Treigys, including that the drone can change into an awesome an extra instrument for sure duties.

Along with the sprayed options, the biotechnology firm “Nando” provides the usage of its personal revolutionary merchandise – adjuvants that enhance the potential of plant safety merchandise and fertilizers and the effectiveness of the mixtures used, cut back the quantity of water sprayed, and adapt the options to environmental situations.

One in all them, Periplus Leaf, is an adjuvant primarily based on a combination of polymethylsiloxane copolymers, which will increase water spreading properties, even as much as 35%. permitting to cut back the quantity of water sprayed, and because of higher protection and penetration, will increase the effectivity of pesticides as much as 20%. Nando’s “Good Contact” product is greatest fitted to protecting rapeseed pods and options with contact fungicides and pesticides, and for wind removing (driftui) to cut back – the product “Targetum”.