Do-it-Yourself: Grafting in Vegetables
This fifth chapter in vegetable grafting in divided in to 10 sections – Each section covers the various aspects of irrigation and fertigation where last 2 sections have result demonstrations.
Learning Objective:
To enable participants gain a conceptual understanding of irrigation and fertigation, its importance, stages, precautions along with application & result demonstrations.
Chapter Content :
Inputs and Infrastructure used in:
- What is Fertigation?
- Why & when to Fertigate?
- Important terms used in concept of Fertigation
- Measurement of EC, pH & Nitrate of Fertigation water
- Optimum & Recommended value of EC, pH & Nitrate
- Fertigation schedule in different stages and different season
- Basics of Irrigation for plug nursery
- Decision of Irrigation based on surface colour of cocopeat
- Result demonstration of “Effect of Fertigation on plant growth”
- Result demonstration of “Effect of pH of Fertigation water on plant growth”
