Letter to the Editor

Irrigation in vegetable farming in the open

Valerija Pokos Nemec

Abstract

For successful production of vegetable crops, vegetational factors have to be provided for: water, nutrients, warmth, light and air. Without these factors, not only that the planned production cannot be realized, but also in the absence of any of them, a plant cannot live. Therefore, water is also one of the factors which the life of the plant depends on, so its cultivation is impossible without it.
It isn’t difficult to explain why water is so important for the plant. It is not only a constituent part of the plant, but it is also a holder of many physiological processes during vegetation; it regulates the plant’s nutritional regime, it dissolves nutrients of the soil and carries them in the plant through root’s little hairs, it regulates the thermal regime of the plant and soil, it mediates in the process of photosyntesis, and it regulates physical, chemical and biological processes in the soil. Different methods and time of irrigation can be differentiated, and this review more closely describes possibilities of irrigation in vegetable farming in the open.

Keywords

water; physiological processes; irrigation

Hrčak ID:

164077

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/164077

Publication date:

13.6.2008.

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