Abstract: Abstract: Fertigation is an irrigation technology of integration of water and fertilizer, and has been widely used in micro-irrigation systems, because of uniform fertilization, high utilization of water and fertilizer, and effectively reducing the pollution of soil and environment. The venturi fertilizer injector has become one of the main means and important equipment to achieve fertigation due to its simple structure, economy, and practicability, but the liquid fertilizer concentration could not be easily adjusted automatically. In order to realize variable rate fertilization with a venturi fertilizer injector, a variable fertilizer apparatus based on PWM (pulse width modulation) technology has been developed, but the apparatus belongs to open-loop control from the perspective of automatic control, and its accuracy and stability is difficult to guarantee. Therefore, a closed-loop control automatic fertilizer-mixing device was developed to improve the liquid fertilizer concentration mixing accuracy and stability, by improving the structure of the variable fertilizer apparatus and adding a conductivity meter that was employed to feedback the real-time fertilizer solution concentration indirectly. The conductivity meter was designed based on a conductivity electrode, and a square signal whose amplitude is ±3.5 V was determined as the excitation signal of the conductivity meter through experiments, to weaken or even eliminate polarization effects and capacitance effects of the conductivity electrode in the measuring process. In order to further improve measuring accuracy, temperature compensation had been applied to the conductivity meter, the measuring range had been divided into several small-scale ranges which could be switched by a multiplexer ADG1408 controlled by a microcontroller, and the corresponding divider resistor and square signal frequency of each small scale range were determined by experiments. By comparison with a standard conductivity meter, whose model is sension 156, the effective measuring range of the conductivity meter designed was 0-12.64 mS/cm, and the conductivity meter designed was calibrated according to the data measured in the effective measuring range. It was known that the conductivity of the fertilizer solution measured by the conductivity meter has a significant linear relationship (the coefficient of determination R2 is 0.997) with the fertilizer solution concentration, based on conductivity testing of a series of different concentration fertilizer solutions prepared in the range of 0.1%-1.0%. In order to improve the control performance of the automatic fertilizer mixing device, a kind of control strategy of two-step regulating with coarse adjustment and fine adjustment was employed: first, the device adjusted the duty cycle of PWM for controlling the solenoid valve to mix fertilizer automatically, by calling the corresponding function based on the detected inlet water pressure; then the device uses a fuzzy control algorithm to regulate the duty cycle of PWM finely, according to the real-time fertilizer solution concentration measured by the designed conductivity meter, in order to make the mixed fertilizer concentration get close to the target concentration as much as possible. An actual test and verification had been undertaken for the fertilizer mixing device, and the results showed that the maximum error of the mixed fertilizer concentration was 0.04% and the response time of the control device for achieving steady-state was 7.8-10.4 s, and it is now known that the device can meet the requirements of practical application in agriculture.