Original Article
Spray Drift Pattern Analysis of Different Sprayers
Year: 2025 | Month: December | Volume 12 | Issue 2
Korla Harshavardhan
Ravuri Sai Prasanth
S.S. Sivakumar2 and Santosh D.T.
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