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Keywords: pesticide applicators, pesticide usage in developing countries has been negatively affected by deficiencies in pesticide application: faulty selection or use of equipment, inadequate calibration, inability to control the size and placement of spray particles, ineffective swath width, wrong volume of spray liquid per surface unite area treated, lack of knowledge concerning practical field assessment of coverage of target surfaces and drift, adverse effect of environmental conditions affecting application, faulty flagging procedures for spray aircraft, incorrect choice of nozzles, inadequate field mixing procedure, generally poor maintenance of equipment