{"id":36589,"date":"2024-07-18T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.rovensanext.com\/?p=36589"},"modified":"2024-07-18T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:06:46","slug":"water-use-efficiency-in-the-crop-the-key-to-profitability-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rovensanext.com\/en\/news\/articles\/water-use-efficiency-in-the-crop-the-key-to-profitability-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Use Efficiency in the crop, the key to profitability and sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that on a daily basis agriculture accounts for approximately 70% of global freshwater use?<\/span>1<\/sup><\/span><\/a>. Thus, to achieve a sustainable and efficient agriculture, it will be every more essential to understand and manage the crops\u2019 water requirements to maximise water use efficiency across the crop cycle. For example, having optimal water soakage from rainfall, or ensuring correct irrigation, both in terms of quantity and timing, is necessary to minimise electricity and water rights costs to the grower, while maximising yield quality and profitability. Optimising water use also improves the sustainability profile of food production.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, this is not the full story, while irrigation technology and associated management tools are increasing in availability and sophistication, simply monitoring soil water dynamics is not enough to optimise yield, the crop as a whole needs to be managed from a holistic viewpoint taking into account both above and below the ground and also a viewpoint across the entire cycle.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is where Biostimulants and soil conditioners have a key role to play building on the technological agronomic management of soil water to ensure efficient use of this precious input down to the last drop.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Key Rovensa Next products that contribute to water use efficiency in the crop.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

When looking to simply to maximise the value capture of rainfall events in unirrigated crops, or to augment the capital investments made in irrigation and soil moisture monitoring equipment under irrigated crops <\/span>Rovensa Next<\/span><\/b><\/a> has a suite of innovative solutions that can be used individually but more ideally used in various combinations, to help extract the value of soil water down to the last drop with a focus on enhancing the profitability of growers, while also allowing for increased agricultural sustainability.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Start with the soil – Water penetration & retention in soil<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Beginning with the soil itself, enhancing the penetration and retention of water in the soil profile has obvious advantages, both under irrigation and rainfed conditions. <\/span>Transformer <\/span><\/b><\/a>for example<\/span> is designed to increase both the infiltration and retention of water in the soil profile, as well as increasing lateral movement of water.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under rain events and overhead irrigation this helps the water drops to overcome water repellent or slaked soil surfaces associated with cultivation and allows for better water penetration with reduced water losses due to overland flow. This has the added benefit of reducing associated nutrient runoff into waterways, reducing waterway pollution especially due to N and P accumulations. At the same time under drip irrigation the improvement in lateral water movement Transformer brings enhances the size of the wet bulb giving a better \u201cwetting\u201d volume of the soil profile. Under all conditions, more water is retained in the micro pore space allowing for a greater reserve of water to be held in the soil for later absorption by roots.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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