FERTIGATION

TECHNOLOGY
DYA3012
DEC 2018
INTRODUCTION
• Fertigation is one of soilless culture technique that commonly
used in agriculture nowadays.

• Soilless culture?
Soilless culture?
• Soilless culture is a methods of growing plants
without soil.
 Wick

Drip/Fertigation
(recovery or Water Culture
non recovery)

Basic
Soilless
System
N.F.T. (Nutrient Aeroponic
Film
Technique)

Ebb and Flow

(Flood & Drain)
Wick
• A wick system is one of the most straightforward, low-tech soilless
systems there is.
• It is one that is very easy to set up and manage and uses
capillary action to move nutrients up a cotton wick to your
plants.
Water culture
• Water culture is a soilless method of plant production by means
of suspending the plant roots in a solution of nutrient-rich,
oxygenated water.
Aeroponic
• Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist
environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium.
Ebb and Flow (Flood and Drain)
• Ebb and flow (also called ebb and flood and flood drain) are
two phases of the tide or any similar movement of water.
• The ebb is the outgoing phase, when the tide drains away from
the shore; and the flow is the incoming phase when water rises
again
• Pots are filled with an inert medium which does not function like
soil or contribute nutrition to the plants but which anchors the
roots and functions as a temporary reserve of water and solvent
mineral nutrients.
• The nutrient solution alternately floods the system and is allowed
to ebb away.
N.F.T. (Nutrient Film Technique)
• Soilless technique wherein a very shallow stream of water
containing all the dissolved nutrients required for plant growth is
re-circulated past the bare roots of plants in a watertight gully,
also known as channels
Drip/Fertigation
• Drip irrigation AKA fertigation is a form of irrigation that saves
water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of
many different plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto
the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and
emitters.
• There are hundreds of variations on these basic
types of systems, but all soilless culture methods
are a variation (or combination) of these six
basic types.
Thank you