STRIPE - Surface Water Tool for Reducing the Impact of Pesticides in the Environment

STRIPE is an initiative which incentivises farmers to adopt the best practice measure of using spray drift reducing technology to reduce the impact of pesticide exposure on the environment while concurrently increasing farm efficiency. The initiative allows farmers to reduce the size of mandatory untreated areas of land near water courses (buffer zones) which in turn allows farmers to make more effective use of their agricultural land while helping to protect aquatic life from pesticide contamination by reducing exposure.

The following list of nozzles are approved by DAFM for use under the STRIPE initiative:

STRIPE Nozzle List January 2025 (pdf 87Kb) 

The following document contains examples of the buffer zone reductions that can be achieved when using drift reducing nozzles under the STRIPE initiative: 

2025 STRIPE Buffer Zone Reduction using Drift Reducing Nozzles (pdf 106Kb)