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Precision fertigation: the right mix of nutrients and water all year round

Precision fertigation: the right mix of nutrients and water all year round

What is precision fertigation?

Precision fertigation is a targeted approach to crop nutrition that ensures optimal plant health and yield quality. By accurately delivering the right mix of water and nutrients directly to the plant roots, through the drip system, it addresses the specific needs of each crop, regardless of soil type, climate, or growing conditions.

Potatoes

Optimize growth with precision irrigation

Agronomists agree that applying too much or too little fertilizer at the wrong times can result in nutrient deficiency or toxicity. Managing daily nutrient delivery to your fields, rather than applying an entire season's fertilizer all at once, offers numerous advantages. It allows you to maximize yields and reduce nutrient costs by ensuring plants receive exactly what they need, exactly when they need it—neither too early nor too late. Using a drip system for nutrient application also cuts down on labor and equipment expenses typically associated with conventional nutrient application methods. Lastly, it allows you to manage risks and reduce losses caused by falling crop prices, diseases, or unpredictable weather patterns.

Nourish your crops from the inside

Fertigation is a game of quantities, nutrient combinations and precise timings. 

Precision fertigation protects your fertilizer investment by letting you tweak dosages on demand, in response to setbacks like market fluctuations and climate changes. And, by keeping doses small and well-timed with rain patterns,  it protects you from leaching and groundwater contamination.

So wherever you are, you can use a precision fertigation system to get higher yields, better-quality crops, reduced leaching, reduced volatility and runoff, and a better return on your fertilizer investment.

Use cases for precision fertigation

Precision fertigation increases crop quality, no matter the crop, climate or region. It’s ideal for:

Managing plant nutrients in tropical climates

Managing plant nutrients in tropical climates

If your region gets plenty of rain, water won’t be an issue. But plant nutrition is a different story. Precision fertigation puts you ahead of your competitors by ensuring higher efficiency of your fertilizer usage resulting in higher yields and better returns for your agricultural inputs.

Protected crops

Protected crops

If you’re running a greenhouse, you’re used to controlling every drop of water. But precision fertigation goes further by sending a precise mix of water and nutrients through the same delivery system, in an automated, personalized schedule. But precision fertigation goes further by stabilizing EC/pH levels in the root zone, reducing nutrient imbalances, and allowing real-time adjustments for crop stage and climate, maximizing yield and efficiency.

Orchards and field crops

Orchards and field crops

Fertilizers are one of your major inputs. Precision fertigation is a smart way to get better results without increasing your input costs. By delivering nutrients directly to the root zone, it’ll lower your costs, increase your productivity and raise your crop’s profitability.

"Precision irrigation provides the only sustainable path forward, helping rice farmers adapt to water scarcity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With smart irrigation, farmers can increase productivity, grow more crops annually, and protect soil health, offering a vital solution in a changing climate."

R Sabarinathan
Netafim Global rice agronomist

Eran Kobi found a better way to grow mushrooms

“We irrigate by computer, by phone, from home.”

Eran Kobi
Mushrooms, Israel

Crop knowledge

Increase your farm’s profitability with the help of our agronomic experts

To maximize both your yields and your long-term success, our agronomists work with you, offering personalized support, guidance and best practices every step of the way. Whatever your challenges, they’ll provide you with the most accurate, up-to-date global intelligence on how to use precision irrigation to improve your yields and crop quality, based on over 50 years of experience.

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Precision fertigation systems

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Want to learn more about precision fertigation?

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