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Institute for Application Techniques in Plant Protection (JKI-AT)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Application Techniques maintains and publishes a list of equipment which fulfils current legal requirements.
If there is any doubt about certain equipment, the JKI may ask for the equipment to be sent in, will test it, and, if necessary, withdraw it from the list.
Manufacterers, importers or distributors may also have their equipment inspected on a voluntary basis.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)
Coordinated projects
- Assessment and testing of plant protection equipment; publication of a descriptive list
- Basic research on various parameters which influence the vertical distribution of sprayers
- Bilateral project - Design of environment-friendly sprayers for bigger fields
- Co-operation as a European testing institute for plant protection equipment within the European Network for Testing of Agricultural Machines (ENTAM)
- Collaborative project: Adaption of nozzles and sensors for gap switching - pre condition for the accurate spraying in orchards – Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Adaptive tramline deactivation on field sprayers. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Assistance system for site specific application of pesticides. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Developement of an innovative approach to adapt the application dose of plant protection products to the conditions in fruit growing – Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development and Design of a robot for the abatement of harmful slugs in agriculture - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development and Design of a robot for the abatement of harmful slugs in agriculture - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development and evaluation of a test stand for automatic boom distance controls on field sprayers - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development and field test of a direct injection system without delay times forpatchspraying application of pesticides - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development and field test of a planter for sustainable reduction of the risk of the ecosystem and the user through dress powder - Sub-project 1
- Collaborative project: Development of an innovative seed treatment technology for cereals without dust abrasion to reduce risk for environment and users. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Implementation of urea inhibitor formulation for ammonia mitigation as well as sustainable, animal and environmental friendly cattle husbandry. Subproject 7
- Collaborative project: Optimisation of chemical-mechanical and mechanical weed control in row crops - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Optimization and field test of a direct injection system for site-specific patch spraying application of pesticides - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Optimization and practical testing of an assistance system for crop protection - subproject B
- Collaborative project: Optimizing of spray boom dynamics - Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Optimizing the gap switching of an orchard sprayer as a pre condition for the accurate spraying of plant protection products - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Quality improvement in vegetable production through robot-assisted slug control in bedding crops
- Collaborative project: Reduction of the amount of plant protection products in pomiculture by adaption the densitiy of foliage wall – Subproject 2
- Development and harmonisation of the inspection of sprayers in use on a European level
- Development of a method for evaluation of drift potential in a wind tunnel for nozzles with 25 cm spacing
- Development of a method for testing maize sowing machines with redard to reducing drift from seed dressing dust
- Development of testing methods for evaluation and comparison of devices forthermal weed control
- Efficient utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles for pesticide application
- Elaboration of a test method for the evaluation of automatic boom height control systems
- Elaboration of a test method for the evaluation of automatic boom section control systems
- Elaboration of alternative concentration measurement for agitation tests
- Enhanced resource efficiency in wheat by spatial arrangement with particular focus on the reduction of herbicides
- Evaluation of a precision spraying device for train track spraying
- Evaluation of alternative substances for testing agitation and rinsing systems
- Exposure measurement 'easyFlow'
- Exposure to residents and bystanders following high crop applications of plant protection products (3D drift detection)
- Field tests for the application of pesticides with higher driving speed and its effects on drift as a basis for new recommendation for the good agricultural practice
- Heubach test method
- Improving Representation, Management and Mitigation of Spray Drift for Plant Protection Products in Arable Crops
- Inspection of seed treatment facilities that meet the quality criteria which ensure that the release of dust is reduced to a minimum level
- lmprovement of a method for testing the suitability of subtances for agitation tests
- National monitoring of biological diversity on farmlands. Subproject 'Development of technolgy'
- New cropping systems
- New plant production systems with autonomous agricultural machinery
- Optimization and practical testing of an assistance system for crop protection
- Organisation and implementation of training activities on inspection and calibration of pesticide application equipment in professional use uder the "Better Training for Better Food' Initiative
- Reduciction of environmental impact of biocides: Practical study of drift of biocide application equipment and development of drift mitigation measures
- Reduction of drift during spray application / fogging of biocides - Derivation of risk mitigation measures and equipment requirements
- Reduction of pesticides by tramline deactivation on field sprayers
- Reduction of the amount of chemicals in plant protection by taking into account the leaf density in orchards
- Reduction of user contamination during the handling of plant protection products (PPP) from containers by means of various closed transfer systems (CTS)
Involved in research projects
- Collaborative project: Development of a granule and liquid formulation based on the entomopathogenic fungus Metrahizium brunneum to control wireworms in integrated and organic potato production. Subproject 1
- Development of a standard test procedure for equipment of thermal weed control
- Risk management for biotic damages in forest stands for achieving sustainable forest management. Subproject 1: Effects of insecticides and natural disturbances on pest antagonists and non-target organisms in pine forests
Contact
Institute for Application Techniques in Plant Protection
(JKI-AT)
Messeweg 11/12
38104 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (531) 299-36 51
Fax: +49 (531) 299-30 12
Email: at(@)julius-kuehn.de