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How to apply little fertiliser, and still harvest more

Fertigation is the practice of applying fertiliser in liquid form to a crop via irrigation.

Minute amounts of fertiliser are regularly metered into the irrigation lines and distributed along with the irrigation water through the sprinkler heads. For fertigation, the irrigation system must be capable of distributing water uniformly. Using irrigation system to apply fertiliser reduces the need to use mechanical operations and sometimes eliminate them altogether.

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