SFE "Kharkivlisozakhyst" specializes in implementing highly efficient and environmentally friendly technology using biological preparations in forestry and urban green spaces, protecting plantations from pests and diseases, as well as in disinfection and pest control using aerosol generators. Over many years, the GARD unit has proven its high efficiency and productivity in combating outbreaks of silkworms and sawflies. Over a hundred thousand hectares of forests across Ukraine have been treated. Today, treatments are being carried out in urban landscaping and residential green spaces to extend their lifespan.

ADVANTAGES OF GARD

Crop Farming

In combating economically harmful pests, plant diseases, herbicide treatments, desiccation, and foliar feeding, the mobile GARD unit is unmatched in efficiency, productivity, and minimal environmental impact. The versatility of the GARD generator allows its use in almost all technologies for applying chemical and biological preparations in forestry and agriculture. The most in-demand application of GARD aerosol technology is combating outbreaks of dangerous insects such as silkworms, sawflies, and cutworms, where covering vast areas in the shortest time is crucial. GARD units are successfully used against stem borers during their flight period. Treatment efficiency reaches 95%, as confirmed by control surveys. The maximum shift productivity of GARD is up to 2000 hectares. This is 5 times higher than aerial methods and 10 times higher than ground boom sprayers. At the same time, labor costs for water delivery and working fluid refilling are significantly reduced. The GARD unit operates in the evening and at night when the impact on most beneficial insects is minimal. Such technological characteristics of the GARD unit as wide coverage, high productivity, and low working fluid consumption significantly facilitate and accelerate protective measures while also reducing costs, including through adherence to agrotechnical timelines.

Livestock and Poultry Farming

The main measures conducted in this type of treatment include: Disinfection of premises – elimination of harmful microorganisms. Disinfection measures aim to destroy pathogens of infectious diseases. Disinfection treatment is carried out both for prevention and to eliminate microorganisms or toxic and allergenic products of their activity.

Disinsection – a set of measures aimed at eliminating harmful insects and mites (ticks, gadflies, mosquitoes, midges, flies, bedbugs, fleas, lice). Forests, parks, and gardens are habitats for insects and ticks. These pests attack humans, animals, and birds, transmitting pathogenic microbes that cause many infectious diseases (Tick-borne encephalitis, Tularemia, Ehrlichiosis, etc.). Ticks, lice, and fleas parasitizing animals cause significant distress, gradually leading to weight loss and often even death.

The GARD aerosol generator ensures rapid disinfection of livestock and storage facilities, elevators, treats fields and forest plantations against pests, provides vegetative feeding for agricultural and forest crops, urban green spaces, and significantly increases production profitability.

Forestry

Forest protection is one of the most critical elements of forestry. The importance of measures to localize and eliminate outbreaks of harmful organisms cannot be overstated. The issue of reliable protection of forest plantations in the forest-steppe zone against damage by harmful insects is particularly acute, as these pests cause serious harm—from weakening forests to loss of viability and desiccation. The most rational approach remains a system of protective measures organized on the principle of integrated pest management. To minimize environmental impact, many factors related to the biology of economically harmful organisms and pesticide application technology are considered. Aerosol insecticide application technology, alongside high productivity (up to 2000 hectares per shift), is characterized by lower environmental pollution and higher-quality work compared to aerial spraying. Aerosol treatments maximally preserve beneficial entomofauna, including bees, as confirmed by research from scientific institutions. This allows forest protection work to localize and eliminate outbreaks of harmful organisms in a short time with minimal impact on non-target objects. Specialists at SFE "Kharkivlisozakhyst" have extensive experience in using ground-based GARD machines against needle- and leaf-eating pests. The GARD unit's technological characteristics—such as wide coverage, high productivity, and low working fluid consumption—significantly facilitate and accelerate forest protection work while also reducing costs.

Healthcare

The GARD aerosol generators can treat areas around country houses, cottages, gardens, and adjacent forests and water bodies against all blood-sucking pests (mosquitoes, ticks, midges) as well as wasps. Treatments are conducted without harm to humans, non-target animals (wildlife, domestic dogs, cats, amphibians), or commercial and ornamental fish in adjacent water bodies. Quarantine treatments – area treatments to detect quarantine pests. A quarantine pest (in plant quarantine) is a harmful organism absent or limited in distribution in Ukraine; a harmful organism is defined as any plant species, variety, or biological type, animal, or pathogenic organism capable of harming plants or plant-derived products.