What is fertirrigation?

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Fertigation is the contribution of fertilizers dissolved in irrigation water. It is a tool that, combined with localized irrigation, involves saving water and nutrients in agriculture, by allowing the application of nutrients when and where plants need them, according to the doses adjusted to their needs.


Advantages of fertigation

The main advantage of fertirrigation is that it allows adjusting the doses of nutrients to the needs of the plants at each stage of their development, placing said nutrients in the volume of soil explored by the roots, which improves the assimilation of nutrients, by the time that the constant humidity is maintained.

Other advantages of fertirrigation are that it allows you to quickly correct nutritional deficiencies and reduce nutrient losses from leaching. In addition, ease of application and labor savings allow fertilizer application to be more efficient.

Disadvantages of fertigation

Fertirrigation would not be understood without being associated with a localized irrigation system, which represents a high installation cost, compared to traditional irrigation systems. At this point, it is important to mention that the installation of the irrigation system must allow the distribution of water and nutrients to be uniform.

It is also important to mention that the people in charge of the application must be properly prepared since the mixing of the fertilizers must be done following an established procedure, which avoids incompatibilities that generate precipitates that plug the drippers.
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan

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