- Docente: Valda Rondelli
- Credits: 3
- SSD: AGR/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Protection of Plants and Vegetal Products (cod. 0006)
Learning outcomes
The course has the goal to give elements to the students for evaluating the performance of agricultural sprayers. The course will also deal with the adjustment and managment of tractors and sprayers.
Course contents
- Modern agricultural tractors.
- Boom sprayers.
- Sprayers for orchard and vineyard
- Sprayers adjustment.
- Mechanisation of the distribution of beneficial organisms in the biological control of pests.
Readings/Bibliography
Copy of the drawings used in the course.
Selected papers.
Paolo Biondi - Meccanica Agraria - UTET
Andrea Bedosti - Il trattore agricolo - Edagricole
Teaching methods
The lectures deal with the description and use of tractor and sprayers. Practices and visits to machinery manufacturers are of support for the comprehension of the subjects considered in the lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
PowerPoint presentations, slides, copies in transparency film, testing laboratory
Office hours
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