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Nutrient Management Strategies for Water and Nutrient Saving in Substrate Soilless Culture Under Protected Cultivation

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In soilless farming, nutrients solution plays a significant role for plant growth and food quality. Knowledge of accurate nutrient selection and its management is always challenging for crop growers in soilless systems. Further, there is a growing need to recirculate and reuse drained solutions in order to decrease environmental issues and economic expenses. However, one of the weakest points in soilless systems is the lack of information on managing the nutrient solution. Therefore, this chapter describes the nutrient selection and compositions, recycling of drained nutrient solution, frequency of fertigation, types of fertigation system, and their nutrient management in soilless system under protected cultivation.

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  1. Scientist-C, Garhwal Regional Centre, G. B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India

    Kusum Pandey

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  1. Garhwal Regional Centre, G. B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India

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  2. ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    N. L. Kushwaha

  3. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Chaitanya B. Pande

  4. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

    K. G. Singh

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Pandey, K. (2024). Nutrient Management Strategies for Water and Nutrient Saving in Substrate Soilless Culture Under Protected Cultivation. In: Pandey, K., Kushwaha, N.L., Pande, C.B., Singh, K.G. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Smart Agriculture. Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0341-8_18

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