Pesticide consumption and environmental pollution in orchards can be greatly decreased by combining variable-rate spray treatments with proportional control systems. Nowadays, farmers use canopy spraying to apply weed killers only where they are required which provides friendly cost-effective crop protection chemicals. Moreover, restricting the of pesticides as Plant Protection Products (PPP) w...

Life on Earth is dependent on sunlight. In the process known as photosynthesis, plants, algae and certain bacterias are capable of using this source of energy to drive the synthesis of organic compounds. The oxygenic photosynthesis results in the release of molecular oxygen and the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that is used to synthesize carbohydrates. This process, which involv...