Aerial Treatment against Cercospora Musae in Bananas

Abstract The success of aerial spraying of bananas with mineral oil is clearly conditioned by certain necessary requirements: these have already been set out, but they are none the less frequently neglected. Neither the planter nor the agriculturalist should abandon his position of responsibility to the pilot, who is, after all, only an executant. Attention should be given to the type of pesticide cloud, the altitude and speed of flight, wind movements close to the level of the field, and the relief of the land. This communication from M. Cuille (of FAO) was originally extracted from the papers of the Second International Aviation Congress, (H.G.)