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So I came across this article in Japanese:
https://www.at-s.com/news/article/topics/shizuoka/690437.html
I will translate it to English and post it here for the hell of it:
DRONE USE OF POLLEN SCATTERING-PREVENTING AGENT, AND HAMAMAMATO COLLABORATIVE BETWEEN INDUSTRY, C
（2019/10/7 17:15）
A spray test of an anti-scattering pollen developed jointly by the University of Tokyo and a private company was recently held at the prefectural Forestry and Forestry Research Center in Hamakita Ward, Hamamatsu.For the spraying, a drone for spraying agricultural chemicals in Yamaha Motor is used.Industry, government and academia worked together to deal with hay fever by checking the spraying conditions from the sky and comparing the effectiveness of the spray with preventive agents that use special nozzles to reduce the amount of chemicals contained.
The preventive medicine, which contains a surface active substance called sorbitan fatty acid ester derived from natural oils and fats, was developed after 25 years of trial and error in cooperation with a chemical manufacturer.It has the effect of killing nearly 100% of the sprayed cedar male flowers, has no effect on people or other trees, and is already registered as an agricultural chemical.
A method for spraying a medicine maximizes the effect of the medicine.The test was carried out with the cooperation of Takashi Nakamura, a professor at Nagoya University, who developed a "waterdrop processing liquid nozzle with an oil film" to produce oil in waterdrops in an effort to prevent chemical splashes.
After spraying at 5% concentration using a general nozzle, the concentration is suppressed to 1% by a processing liquid nozzle by Nakamura, and the cedar is sprayed on the cedar under the same conditions.Observed the course about a month after the male flower began to wither, similar results showed the same effect with a fifth of the dose.
"There were some places where they didn't write evenly, but I'm looking forward to how many male flowers will die in a month," said Prof. Koishio.
Here is another article in English:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903020001.html
So this is great news for me, but I am skeptical that this will do much to prevent my hayfever symptoms from hitting me hard this year. Today I started to experience the sneezing and runny nose. So I think it is starting for me early this year.
My Japanese friend read another article stating that there will be a 40% decrease in the amount of pollen...but I guess that is a great first step and better than a 0% decrease. The English article I posted claims an 80% decrease...so I have no idea what the real numbers are. I hope there is a significant decrease of cedar pollen this spring.
Anyone else know about this?
https://www.at-s.com/news/article/topics/shizuoka/690437.html
I will translate it to English and post it here for the hell of it:
DRONE USE OF POLLEN SCATTERING-PREVENTING AGENT, AND HAMAMAMATO COLLABORATIVE BETWEEN INDUSTRY, C
（2019/10/7 17:15）
A spray test of an anti-scattering pollen developed jointly by the University of Tokyo and a private company was recently held at the prefectural Forestry and Forestry Research Center in Hamakita Ward, Hamamatsu.For the spraying, a drone for spraying agricultural chemicals in Yamaha Motor is used.Industry, government and academia worked together to deal with hay fever by checking the spraying conditions from the sky and comparing the effectiveness of the spray with preventive agents that use special nozzles to reduce the amount of chemicals contained.
The preventive medicine, which contains a surface active substance called sorbitan fatty acid ester derived from natural oils and fats, was developed after 25 years of trial and error in cooperation with a chemical manufacturer.It has the effect of killing nearly 100% of the sprayed cedar male flowers, has no effect on people or other trees, and is already registered as an agricultural chemical.
A method for spraying a medicine maximizes the effect of the medicine.The test was carried out with the cooperation of Takashi Nakamura, a professor at Nagoya University, who developed a "waterdrop processing liquid nozzle with an oil film" to produce oil in waterdrops in an effort to prevent chemical splashes.
After spraying at 5% concentration using a general nozzle, the concentration is suppressed to 1% by a processing liquid nozzle by Nakamura, and the cedar is sprayed on the cedar under the same conditions.Observed the course about a month after the male flower began to wither, similar results showed the same effect with a fifth of the dose.
"There were some places where they didn't write evenly, but I'm looking forward to how many male flowers will die in a month," said Prof. Koishio.
Here is another article in English:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903020001.html
So this is great news for me, but I am skeptical that this will do much to prevent my hayfever symptoms from hitting me hard this year. Today I started to experience the sneezing and runny nose. So I think it is starting for me early this year.
My Japanese friend read another article stating that there will be a 40% decrease in the amount of pollen...but I guess that is a great first step and better than a 0% decrease. The English article I posted claims an 80% decrease...so I have no idea what the real numbers are. I hope there is a significant decrease of cedar pollen this spring.
Anyone else know about this?
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