Download or read book Guidelines on Organization of Schemes for Testing and Certification of Agricultural Pesticide Sprayers in Use written by and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guidelines in this document are addressing government officials in plant protection, environmental and other concerned authorities. They cover the testing and certification of the sprayers currently applying pesticides on commercial farms. The series addresses an urgent need in many countries to ensure that where pesticides are used in crop production, they are applied through equipment, which is safe and fully functional. The issue applies to aircraft, large, field crop and orchard sprayers as well as to operator-carried equipment.