INFLUENCE OF TOPOGRAPHICAL FACTORS ON PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL AIRCRAFT IN EGYPT

ABDEL-LATEEF, MAHMOUD F.; GABIR, IBRAHIM; HINDY, MOHAMED A.; NEGM, MOHAMED F.

doi:10.21608/ejar.1999.336989

INFLUENCE OF TOPOGRAPHICAL FACTORS ON PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL AIRCRAFT IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Plant protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

² Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

³ Department of spraying Technology Researches, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

10.21608/ejar.1999.336989

Abstract

Five main factors affecting the productivity of agricultural aircraft, which are: topografical, technical, operational, climatic and pilotage-wise factors. The present work concentrated on topographical factors such as: field size, field run length, ferry flight distance and inter-plot ferrying distance, with the use of Mi-2 helicopter for spraying cotton plantations during 1992-93. The run length as a function of field size proved to be the highest effective decisive factors, while the minor factor was interplot ferry. The ferry flight is situated between the mentioned two extremes, but more close to the interplot ferry.