Fertigation Management of soil and water is highly important. Normally this is done through soil and water analysis which is likely to take some time. A quicker visual method is discussed for monitoring plants for an early assessment if you are giving more or less of fertilizers. Afterwards more precise methods may be carried out to regain fertilizer balance. Discussed in this post are the nutrients Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg) and Iron (Fe).
Water conservation and creation of water reserve is the need for mankind. UAE is said to have created a large water reserve with desalinated water transported through large pipe from ocean to underground in a number of wells to recharge, recoer and observe the acquifer in the ground.
By 2050 agricultural production will have to rise by 70% to meet projected demand for food. Since most land suitable for farming is already farmed, this growth must come from higher yields and better farm management. Robotics would need to be adopted in all aspects of farming like in autonomous tractors, autonomous seeding, drone surveillance, satellite imagery for fertigation schemes etc.
Calculation of actual requirement of fertilizer in easy and timely is important. The exact amounts of N, P and K to be provided in the life cycle of a plant are different and thus need to be calculated differently. This blog presents a simple method to calculate the amount of fertilizers through equation A = X / P x K to get the required PPM value of N,P and K for the fertigation solution.
