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Collaborative project: Development of an innovative seed treatment technology for cereals without dust abrasion to reduce risk for environment and users. Subproject 1 (INTEGRA)
Project
Project code: JKI-AT-08-1136, 2814905415
Contract period: 01.07.2017
- 28.02.2021
Budget: 321,873 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Seed treatment is an application of plant protection products onto seeds prior to sowing. The active ingredients (a. i.) of the seed treatment product protect seeds and young plants in the soil. Seed treatment is an environmentally friendly way of using plant protection products and is very precise compared to applications with a boom sprayer, which is a large advantage of this method. However, when the seed treatment layer is subjected to mechanical stress small active ingredients containing dust particles can be abraded. This seed treatment dust may cause negative effects in the environment and to machine users. So the aim of this project is to reduce the a. i. dust emission to the environment while sowing cereals. Therefore an active ingredient free cover-layer has to be developed, which protects the a. i. containing seed treatment layer against abrasion. A second important step is to develop or rather modify seed treatment application technology which allows the application of the new a. i. free cover-layer.
The aim of this project is to prevent the release of seed dressing dust into the environment from dust abrasion of wheat. For this purpose, an active substance-free top layer is to be developed, which can be additionally applied to the treated seeds. A further important step is the development seed coating technique or the improvement of existing seed coating techniques that make the application of the top layer technically possible. ln the reporting period, initial planning and preliminary studies on the influence of grain and environmental properties on the dressing process were started.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Protection
- Agricultural Engineering Plant Production
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute for Application Techniques in Plant Protection (JKI-AT)
