Effect of Vertical Boom Position of the Greenhouse Sprayer on the Penetration of Spray to the Eggplants Canopy

Abstract

The research objective focuses on spraying the leaves of the plant from the top and bottom through a spraying machine designed and made of aluminum with a movable arm equipped with a nozzle holder divided into three parts and each piece contains a nozzle of the type (Flat Fan 120-C3) as the machine was tried in a greenhouse with a study of the effect of changing the positions of the upper and lower piece of the tube carrying the nozzles to four levels (A1, A2, A3, A4) and the effect of pressure change on two levels (2,4) bar and studying the effect of the previous factors on some of the characteristics of the study, Spray quality on adaxial of leaf, Spray quality on the abaxial surface of a leaf, spraying on all test sheets placed on the eggplant plant. The experimental design is RCBD according to the SPLIT-PLOT system and for three repeaters using the least significant difference (LSD) with a probability level of 0.05. The results showed that the A2 situation was significantly superior to all the studied qualities, and the pressure (4 bar) was significantly superior to all the studied qualities. As for the interaction position of boom (A4) with the pressure of (4bars), its result in all qualities was less than the rest of the coefficients, and it is not significant at the level of (0.05).