Potato and Tuber Crops

Sprinkler Irrigation / Fertigation

Sprinkler Irrigation

• The sprinkler system, gives uniform distribution of water without compacting soil surface, reducing water losses in terms of deep percolation.
• It could be used in special situations, viz., undulating topography.
• Extremely sandy soils with very high water intake rate or fine-textured soils with very low intake rate and costly and scare water supply but assured returns.
• The fertilizer nutrients applied directly to potato plants as foliar spray twice a week up to 45-50 days crop through sprinkler-fertigation, helps in better plant and root growth and tuber development.