Paper Title
Fertigation in Vegetable Crops

Abstract
Advances in micro-irrigation techniques like drip irrigation have facilitated more widespread adoption of fertigation, especially for vegetable crops. It is generally believed that fertigation improves nutrient uptake efficiency and preferable to dry fertilizer broadcast application because it increases yield, enhances crop quality and minimizes loss of nutrients i.e. leaching of NO3- below the root zone. In fertigation the water soluble nutrients move with the wetting front and thus precise management of irrigation quantity along with the rate and timing of nutrient application are of critical importance to obtain desired results in terms of productivity and nutrient use efficiency. A review is made of the current literature on the use of fertigation and covering various aspects of vegetable production including its dosification and the uptake of nutrients. Keywords - Fertigation, Uptake of Nutrients and Vegetable Crops