App Monitoring Pesticides Entering Water
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
New smartphone app aims to help farmers and advisers reduce the risk of key pesticides entering water, such as metaldehyde slug pellets and oilseed rape herbicide metazachlor
The app was developed by agchem firm Adama, as part of its commitment to promote the responsible use of current chemistry, which is under increasing pressure, being found in raw drinking water supplies, plus the need for the UK to comply with EU directives.
“UK agriculture has lost more than 70% of the active substances at its disposal since the early 1990s,” says the firm’s marketing manager, Ali Bosher.
“This, combined with the increasing technical challenges posed by resistance, increased EU legislation and the lack of new modes of action, means that we need to do all that we can to protect the remaining actives at our disposal.”
The WaterAware app offers a field-based risk assessment, integrating soil type, weather and soil moisture deficit information to provide farmers with a simple yes-or-no guide to whether they should apply pellets or spray crops in terms of the potential risk to surface water.
Source: Farmers Weekly
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