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WATER MANAGEMENT USING POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED PRODUCTS IN GROWING MEDIA FOR CONTAINER PLANT PRODUCTION©
Article number
1014_44
Pages
189 – 191
Language
English
Abstract
There are a number of drivers for saving water on ornamentals nurseries.
These include:
These include:
- Possible increases in transpiration if air temperatures rise as a result of climate change.
- Increasing demands on water supplies as a result of population growth.
- Competition for water resources between edible and ornamental crops.
- Increasing costs for labour, energy for operating pumps, and fertiliser (impact of nutrient leaching from over-watered crop).
Products such as the polysaccharide-based Celcote® (marketed in the U.K. by Certis), that can retain water within substrates and moderate its supply to the crop, are therefore of increasing interest to growers.
Authors
A. Horgan
Keywords
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