Plants need 17 elements for completion of growth and development successfully. The role and behaviourof these mineral nutrients in soil is different in context to their mobility in soil and reaction with other nutrients in soils. The immobility of nutrients in soil makes the nutrients deficient. Indiscriminate use of nitrogenous fertilizers is damaging soil and ground water resources besides lower efficiency to crop plants. The nitrogen from fertilizers after converting in nitrate through microbial action particularly bacteria residing in the soil enters into streams and rivers after leaching into groundwater and washes out of the soil surface.Balanced fertilizer i.e., use of fertilizer nutrients in right proportion and in adequate amount are considers as promising agro-techniques to sustain yield, increase fertilizer use efficiency and to restore soil health.The need of the hour is therefore, maximizing the production per unit drop of water. The foliar application makes the available plant nutrients at appropriate time and amount. Fertilizer application along with irrigation water through micro irrigation systemi.e sprinkler and drip irrigationare most advanced and efficient practice of fertilization particularly for degraded soils like problematic soils, light soils, sloppy soils reduce the fertilizer efficiency by fixation, leaching losses, denitrification, reaction with other nutrients.

Keywords: Fertigation; Micro irrigation; Crop Production.