These aspects are crucial, after detecting serious shortcomings in applications that turn weed control more difficult.
Continuing with the virtual training cycle; On October 14, 2020 from 7:00 p.m., a training session was held for producers, operators, agro technical schools students, fruit and vegetable technicians from Teacher Training Institute (IFD) of Bella Vista (Corrientes, Argentina) and local growers.
Agronomist Andrés Ramírez; Development Coordinator at INTA EEA Bella explained current training session is one of many within Fontagro Project ATN / RF - 17232 - RG "Sustainable control of the HLB vector in Family Farming in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia",
General goal was to present effective strategies for the proper use of herbicides on citrus farms; among them, timing, dose, machines calibration, mixtures, water quality, PH among other issues components.
These aspects are crucial, after detecting serious shortcomings in applications that turn weed control more difficult.
The virtual meeting allowed working on some central concepts: correct use of herbicides and their effectiveness,
Types of herbicides used, residual, contact and systemic,
Importance of the vegetative state of the weed at the time of application,
Water quality,
Proper mixtures,
Annual machine calibration or backpacks and other aspects to take into account such as the pH of the solution, pressure, drop size, drift and number of drops per cm2.
Sixteen people attended the webinar. All attendees are key actors regarding citrus growing in the region (leading producers of the region, students and graduated fruit and vegetable technicians; who today perform tasks in fruit and vegetable establishments in the area, etc.)
Dissertation led to a valuable exchange of experiences, where producers expressed some inconveniences in weed control that can be attributed to some aspects mentioned in the talk.
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