Importance of Precise Crop Nutrition under Desert Growing Conditions

Convener: Isaac Tzur, Ramat Negev Research and Development Center (MOP)

Efficient crop nutrition management aims to synchronize nutrient supply with plant dynamic needs and combines the usage of enhanced efficiency fertilizers (EEF) and nutrient monitoring technologies. This improves NUE and ensures crop high productivity under normal growing conditions but, furthermore under the desert challenging growing conditions. Precise nutrition helps crops to cope better with the different abiotic stresses permanently present in the desert environment such as water scarcity, saline soil and irrigation water, alkaline, and sodic soils, low soil fertility (sandy), and elevated temperature.

Note:  This session will take place at the Research and Development Center (MOP)