Israel India | Business Guide | 2017

026 > General Content > AutoAgronom Israel-India > Business Guide > 2017 T he presence of constant optimal conditions of water, oxygen (air), and minerals in the roots media is a vital precondition for efficient intensive agricultural crops.The growing strategy of plants is linked to environmental conditions. Plants act as meteorological, chemical, and biological‘Monitoring-probe’and they react to environmental conditions by their development and growth pattern.Yet,their growth pattern depends on the presence of the secondary roots* and their ability to absorb, transport and supply water, oxygen and minerals to the plant's organs. Many growers of intensive dripping crops fertigate with exaggerated quantities of unused water and fertilizers. They do it according to predefined irrigation schedules, regardless of the natural rhythm of the plant’s physiological activities; while only smaller soil-solution quantities are used by the plants during their 24-hour physiological activities. Exaggerated quantities of water and fertilizers in the root's volume (soil or other media) eliminate the presence of the oxygen,create ‘salinity',moderate the growth of the plants and decrease yields. At the same time, precious natural resources are being wasted while the grower does not meet his income potential. Moreover,every year,millions of tons of excess fertilizers are consciously programmed to leak from intensive agricultural areas.In fact it contaminates the drinking water aquifers all over the world. Appropriate sensors that automatically detect and control the important physical and chemical parameters and are related and affect the appropriate growing conditions for the secondary roots are the need of the hour.Having these will enable the farmers to have control in real time, 24 hours a day, on the irrigated feeding solution,on the volume of the roots media and on the drain solution. Thus, the plants' vital physiological activities such as Transpiration,Oxidation,Translocation etc. are controlled. Efficient Method of Fertigation Helping Plants Grow Intensively While Reducing the Usage of Water & Fertilizers Dr. Yoseph Shoub And, above all, the benefits gained from accuracy control; include absorbing easily the soil solution containing the dissolved oxygen and minerals,and conducting it,night and day,to all the plant's organs.Besides,this will help absorb the CO 2 and release the O 2 to the surrounding atmosphere during the day, while producing the sugars (Photosynthesis), and then conduct the sugars and their derivate during the night, to feed and control all the growing sites of the plants.And that means getting improved production. *The secondary roots do the work! Nomatter whom they belong to, they all do the same work.They are built for it.So let them do it the easy way. Dr. Y. Shoub- Plant physiologist and a gerbera breeder,works for Selecta Cut Flowers S.A.U.User of the AutoAgronom systemand Consultant for 'AutoAgronom Israel Ltd.' 2005 – 2017. www. autoagronom.com Tomato Tomato Spring onion Spring onion Celery Celery Wheat Kale Kohlrabi Broccoli