Combining irrigation and fertilisation in open-fields agriculture

The term fertigation is used in agriculture to refer to the combination of irrigation and fertilisation, in one step. Now, an EU-funded project, called OPTIFERT, aims at developing an automatic system that enables farmers to use both water and fertilisers in a more sustainable way in open fields. Lucia Doyle is the project coordinator and a chemical engineer and works as a project manager at the Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum (ttz) Bremerhaven, Germany, an independent provider of research service. Here, Doyle tells youris.com about the challenges of such highly integrated agricultural practice.

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