InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The ways to realize efficiency in palm oil plantations keep running. One efficiency that could be done is by the nozzle vlv 50. How efficient is it to spray?
It needs to nurse palm oil plantation regularly. This could be the way to control the pest and diseases. Pest and disease control in the plantation could be chemically done. It this happens, it needs spraying tools.
Spraying tools
In this case, the spraying tool is carried by man and his (hand) power pushes the water out. The spraying tool is not a machine or using other power.
But before spraying, it would be better to know some things to choose spraying tools, such as, it is light to carry but resilient; the second, it has no leak – if the spray tube gets leak, it would have something to do with the sprayer condition.
For illustration, the dozes needed in a spray tank are 240 ml glyfosat, 20 gr methyl per 15 liter of water or per tank. If glyfosat is Rp 52.000 per liter and methyl is Rp 350.000 per kg (the both are branded materials) one spray tank would be the same with Rp 19.480.
If in each 15 liters of solution per tank, the leak reaches 1 liter or equal to Rp 1.298, it is imaginable that in 60.000 hectares the extravagance could be Rp 203.360.256 per year. The numbers are for the branded spray tank. It could be done in safer ways.
Pressure Regulator
It is often called as calibrator or regulator. It functions to get constant water pressure. If the water is not out though the pressure is maximal, the water would not be out in much number.
If there is no pressure regulator, in the morning day when someone’s power is in good condition, the sunshine is not too hot, the spraying volume would be more maximal than it in the evening when someone’s power gets weaker. The spraying result would be less good or ribbed.
Easy to get spare parts
The routine usage would cause some certain parts worn out or broken. There should be spare parts to be fixed immediately. Do not use non-compatible spare parts. In this case, any speculation does not approve, such as, every little heps. It should be easy to fix which means, it could be internally (independently) fixed without asking for helps from maintenance.
By: Marlon Sitanggang/ Agronomy Division Head USTP Group
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