The Benefits and Impications of Using Fertilisers for Improving Plant Productivity To the Environment

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The Benefits and Impications of Using Fertilisers for Improving Plant Productivity To the Environment

In my point of view I think that fertilizers are of use to the

environment in some ways but can also be potentially damaging in

others. The term fertilisers is stated as " A substance usually added

to soil to increase its ability to support plant growth" by Encarta.

This shows that fertilisers are needed to keep soil in good conditions

to allow the maximum productivity for plant growth. This is why they

are important to the agricultural industry because they allow maximum

productivity and higher yields, meaning more money for the farmer. But

fertilisers can also be potentially hazardous to the environment; they

can pollute local water supplies, harm humans and animals and can add

to the amount of volatile gases being added to the atmosphere.

Firstly fertilizers are potentially good for the environment in ways

that they improve the soil structure and nutrient content, this

therefore improves plant growth. Fertilisers are needed to allow a

farmer to have maximum productivity in the crop that they are growing.

So they are vital for economic reasons to allow the most productivity

the land can give, (high yield) so the most money can be got from

selling the high yield amount of crops. Also fertilisers help the

condition of the plants to be top condition by providing them the

first hand nutrients, which are vital for good growing that may not

already be in the soil.

Fertilisers normally consist of macronutrients (the main nutrients in

mass quantities) and micronutrients (e.g. copper, zinc etc), which are

also found, in fertilisers but...

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plants at the bottom die of lack of sunlight and animals can die

through lack of oxygen, which has been used up by the algae. This

ruins the ecosystem of the water supplies and the food chain around

that area is dramatically effected because animals which used fish to

feed off. No longer have these animals as there food supply so in turn

decreases amount of plant dwelling animals. This is called

eutrophication, nitrates and phosphates polluting water supplies. This

is a strongly negative reason why fertilisers should not be used in

the environment, because they are very hazardous to surrounding

wildlife. And when not used correctly like this the risks of using

them are too high on the treat to the environment, so practices to

monitor their content in the soil is vitally needed if they should be

used.

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