artificial fertilizer


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artificial fertilizer

Mineral fertilizer usually containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium compounds. Overuse can harm soil structure and pollute water supplies.
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The necessary response from the farmer is to use large quantities of artificial fertilizer and pesticides in order to maintain an acceptable yield.
The excessive use of artificial fertilizer and manure in industrial farming has caused accelerated algae growth, he said
According to a press statement made by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office on Monday, police have conducted raids into five cells in Gaziantep province, during which they seized around two-and-a-half tons of artificial fertilizer, 10 suicide vests and a sewing machine believed to be used to make suicide vests.
The result of most obvious effort was around 1975 in the world, when the Green Revolution in agriculture sector was occurred, per acre yield and crop quality were increased, artificial fertilizer use became most common and other factors also became vital (Evan, 2009).
"Practices such as using animal manure rather than artificial fertilizer, planting trees on farms to reduce soil erosion and sequester carbon, and growing food in cities all hold huge potential for reducing agriculture's environmental footprint."
Haber's name may never be detached from chemical warfare, but the food supply of half the world currently relies on the large-scale production of artificial fertilizer that he enabled.
Two to three weeks before grafting, plants should be watered properly and artificial fertilizer should be used according to the need.
The results also show that the rate of change has accelerated over the past 60 years, which is in agreement with the commercialization of artificial fertilizer production in the 1950s.
26 July 2011 - No current Norwegian, European Union (EU) regulations or upcoming more stringent EU rules could have prevented Anders Breivik from buying enough artificial fertilizer to make killer bombs, according to a preliminary conclusion of the Norwegian directorate for civil protection and emergency planning DSB.
For more than a third of the world's people, more food means more artificial fertilizer. If only food crops could use the nitrogen from [N.sub.2] in the air.
For this reason, the artificial fertilizer people tell their customers to increase the organic matter content of their soil and to use lime, offsetting the deleterious effects of these acids.
Instead, with the serious damage to the soil, deficient food loaded with artificial fertilizer, pesticide and fungicide and artificial growth stimulants are the 'proper' food of the world, they claim.