Category FAQs Search : Fertigation Farming
Question: Fertigation recipes for selected crops in the Mediterranean region
Answer: Fertigation increases efficient use of water and fertilizers, produces higher yields,
improves quality of the production and protects environment. To ensure uniform
distribution of water and fertilizers, the irrigation system must be properly designed
and operated. The choice of suitable fertilizers is also very important and must be
based on several factors like nutrient form, purity, solubility and cost.
To implement a fertigation program, particularly under intensive greenhouse
production, good knowledge is required of water and nutrient requirements over the
growing season. The fertigation model developed to be used at farmers level
concerns drip-irrigated greenhouse tomato, pepper, cucumber and melon. It takes into
account the amount of nutrients which may be available to the crop from soil and
calculates for a target yield the quantities of N, P and K fertilizers which may be
supplied through the irrigation stream over the growing season.
(Source: , 01 Sep 2021)
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