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The presence of constant optimal
conditions of water, oxygen (air),
and minerals in the roots media is
a vital precondition for efficient intensive
agricultural crops.The growing strategy of
plants is linked to environmental conditions.
Plants act as meteorological, chemical, and
biological‘Monitoring-probe’and they react to
environmental conditions by their development
and growth pattern.Yet,their growth pattern
depends on the presence of the secondary
roots* and their ability to absorb, transport
and supply water, oxygen and minerals to
the plant's organs.
Many growers of intensive dripping crops
fertigate with exaggerated quantities of
unused water and fertilizers. They do it
according to predefined irrigation schedules,
regardless of the natural rhythm of the plant’s
physiological activities; while only smaller
soil-solution quantities are used by the
plants during their 24-hour physiological
activities. Exaggerated quantities of water
and fertilizers in the root's volume (soil or
other media) eliminate the presence of the
oxygen,create ‘salinity',moderate the growth
of the plants and decrease yields. At the
same time, precious natural resources are
being wasted while the grower does not
meet his income potential.
Moreover,every year,millions of tons of excess
fertilizers are consciously programmed to
leak from intensive agricultural areas.In fact
it contaminates the drinking water aquifers
all over the world.
Appropriate sensors that automatically
detect and control the important physical
and chemical parameters and are related and
affect the appropriate growing conditions
for the secondary roots are the need of the
hour.Having these will enable the farmers to
have control in real time, 24 hours a day, on
the irrigated feeding solution,on the volume
of the roots media and on the drain solution.
Thus, the plants' vital physiological activities
such as Transpiration,Oxidation,Translocation
etc. are controlled.
Efficient Method of Fertigation
Helping Plants Grow Intensively While Reducing the Usage of
Water & Fertilizers
Dr. Yoseph Shoub
And, above all, the benefits gained from
accuracy control; include absorbing easily
the soil solution containing the dissolved
oxygen and minerals,and conducting it,night
and day,to all the plant's organs.Besides,this
will help absorb the CO2and release the O 2 to
the surrounding atmosphere during the day,
while producing the sugars (Photosynthesis),
and then conduct the sugars and their derivate
during the night, to feed and control all the
growing sites of the plants.And that means
getting improved production.
*The secondary roots do the work! Nomatter whom
they belong to, they all do the same work.They are
built for it.So let them do it the easy way.
Dr. Y. Shoub- Plant physiologist and a gerbera
breeder,works for Selecta Cut Flowers S.A.U.User
of the AutoAgronom systemand Consultant for
'AutoAgronom Israel Ltd.' 2005 – 2017.
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