Evaluation of the Quality and Possible Use of a New Generation of Agricultural Nets for Packing Bulk Materials in Terms of the Aspect of Reducing the Environmental Burden

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

New generation of agricultural net for packing bulk agricultural materials are studied in this manuscript. Such net product is very useful and urgently needed. It is in the scope of the journal "Agriculture". But the article was poorly written. The article should be revised before being published.

1. the language should be improved. some of the long sentences should be divided into some short sentences for best understanding.

2. Materials and Methods part should be divided into short part and every short part should be descripted in detail.

3. More discussion content should be added in the results part.

4. Is the preparation of packaging net with degradable materials another way to solve the green development of agricultural packaging materials like degradable mulching films (DOI: 10.2174/1570193X18666210813142022; DOI: 10.3390/polym14153157; DOI: 10.3390/polym14245340).

5. Whether the aging test data of such packaging net can be supplemented?

 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,
Thank you kindly for all comments and questions posted in the review. In the attached file we send answers and explanations to the questions asked. We have included all suggestions and recommendations for improving the quality of the manuscript.
Sincerely - Authors

Author Response File: Author Response.doc

Reviewer 2 Report

Manuscript title “Evaluation of the quality and possible use of a new generation of agricultural net for packing bulk materials in the aspect of reducing the environmental burden”

This work evaluates the agricultural net produced in light technology under the commercial name of Covernet based on the tests conducted for 9 variants of different models of round balers and different bulk 15 materials collected by them.

This manuscript can be considered for publication after revision and replying the following comments.

1-      Line 31: …the very face of agriculture” what does it mean?

2-      Table 1: what is the meaning of (+ and -) please explain and clarify for the reader.

3-      Table 8: what is the unit for HDPE consumption? Is the amount of consumed HPDE on using LT technology? Please clarify.

4-      L 277: The authors wrote” There is currently no developed technology for recycling used agricultural netting after its use”, the recycling technology of PE is established and 10 % of used polyethylene is reused.

5- The last paragraph in the conclusion (L 276: L285) should be moved to the introduction

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,
Thank you kindly for all comments and questions posted in the review. In the attached file we send answers and explanations to the questions asked. We have included all suggestions and recommendations for improving the quality of the manuscript.
Sincerely - Authors

Author Response File: Author Response.doc

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

it can be published at this status

Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript is improved and all comments are replied.