Fertilizers are substances added to the soil sprayed on leaves of plants to help them grow better or in some cases faster. Plants need twenty essentail elements to help them grow. Plants make carbohydrates. A plant needs nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, sulfur, and magnesium the most to grow healthy. Most soils naturally contain enough trace elements for field crops, but such elements must be added when certain fruits and vegetable plants are grown. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are
Fertilizers:- Fertilizer any substance of natural or synthetic origin, which are applied to the soil or tissue implant to provide plant nutrients or more vital to the development of plants. The effective increasing crop production and increase the quality of the crop. There are two types of fertilizers. Organic Inorganic Organic fertilizers:- Fertilizers which are normally used in soil. They are healthy for plants and have long lasting good effects on the soil. Inorganic fertilizer:- Fertilizers
high proportion of nitrogen fertilizers during the spring growth of spurts. The fertilisers can be spitted in two categories: organic that contains a low level of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium and aren’t toxic to the environment and synthetic that are made by a high concentration of the three substances and can be corrosive to the environment if are overused. Looking closely to the three chemicals: nitrogen is considered the most important substance of a fertilizer, it contribute to the greening
plants. Fertilizer is any substance used to add nutrients to the soil to promote soil fertility and increase plant growth. Fertilisers helps to enhance the plant growth. Simply fertilizer are nothing but the plant nutrients. Fertilisers can be classified into two categories: organic or inorganic Organic fertilizers:- are derived from living or once-living material, including animal wastes, crop residues, compost and numerous other by-products of living organisms. Inorganic fertilizers:- are derived
Nitrogen as a Fertilizer, Nutrient, or Pollutant Nitrogen can always be a fertilizer, nutrient, or pollutant depending on the circumstances and the environment it is in. As a fertilizer, nitrogen can be extremely useful in aiding the growth of many plants. As a nutrient, nitrogen is essential to many plants growth and survival. As a pollutant, nitrogen can not only affect the plant at the given time but be very detrimental many years down the road. No matter where you go nitrogen will always
Fertilizer pollution Fertilizers are very commonly used on all types of farms and plants, but they strongly affect water pollution, and can be a big problem. Whether if fertilizers are organic or artificial, if they get into water ecosystems, they can cause very large problems. The fertilizers will cause an algae bloom, which can later cause dead zones. Dead zones are spots in which large algae blooms happened, and there are very little animals in the marine zone. Fertilizer pollution interacts
Introduction A fertilizer is a chemical substance or a natural substance added to soil to increase its nutrients content. Fertilizers replenish the soil with nutrients that have been depleted. There are two types of fertilizers which include: Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers. Organic Fertilizer is derived from animal manure and vegetable scraps or remains. Inorganic Fertilizers are artificially produced in a chemical laboratory to contain a certain percentage of nutrients, mainly nitrogen, phosphorus
found a way to pull nitrogen from the atmosphere and created synthetic fertilizer. “Using high pressure and a catalyst, he directly reacted nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas to create ammonia.” (Chemical Heritage Foundation). This is known as nitrogen fixation. He discovered this in a period of time when there was a shortage of food in the world. Half of our food comes from synthetic fertilizer. Even now with chemical fertilizer, millions of people don’t have enough food to feed themselves or their families
different kinds of soils, one kind of soil was developed by adding inorganic fertilizer and the other was developed by adding organic fertilizers. The growth and development of plants was observed by time to time. The increase in length of plants was observed to see the rate of growth of plants. Each pot with organic and inorganic fertilizer had shown the growth of plants but differently. The pot with the inorganic fertilizer had shown remarkable growth of plants. It showed that plants had absorbed
Fertilizers are substances that enhance soil fertility and plant growth by providing the nutrients that the crop is deficient in. First used by ancient farmers, fertilizer technology developed significantly as the chemical needs of growing plants were discovered. Nowadays, fertilizers are used extensively all over the world as they play an important role on modern food production. Despite the numerous ways that fertilizers benefit the plants, misuse can cause problems and threaten the environment
The West Fertilizer Plant Explosion On April 17, 2013, the community of West, Texas, suffered a devastating and heartbreaking event in the evening hours. After a fire broke out inside the West Fertilizer plant, a massive explosion leveled the facility, caused millions of dollars in damage to surrounding buildings, and took the lives of over a dozen people. Sadly, the majority of those killed were volunteer firefighters who had responded to the fire and were unable to retreat to a safe distance before
Today, chemical fertilizers are used worldwide on people’s crops and other plants. One may ask, what is chemical fertilizer and how does it contribute to our environment? To start with, crops need a number of nutrients to survive like nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorous for their growth. Overtime, soil nutrients decrease because the crops are harvested or they die. The nutrients do not come back to the soil until the crop decomposes so when you add fertilizer, the process is sped up and plants grow
years farmers have been adding natural fertilizers to their crops. It is a big risk though. Over fertilizing is very dangerous. It puts high concentrations of salt into the soil. It can also affect the water resources nearby. Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potassium are the basics of fertilizer. If a certain nutrient is short in supply the fertilizer might not work as well. Calcium, iron, manganese are also nutrients that might be needed. So don’t just trust the fertilizer bag that says it has all the nutrients
West, Texas is a town located in McLennan County in the central part of Texas. It has a population of around 2,800 people. During the evening of Wednesday the 17th April of 2013 a massive explosion occurred in the small town. The West Fertilizer Company; which is owned by Adair Grain Inc. which had stockpiles of anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate amongst other agricultural items; was the center and cause of the blast. It is not the first time that an explosion such as this has happened in
Company Background CF Industries was founded in 1946 and was initially called Central Farmers Fertilizer Company. The company was founded so farmers would be able purchase fertilizer at a better cost using their fellow farmers. The company would receive lower prices for fertilizer because the large quantity that would be purchased. The company went through hard times during the 1960s and the only reason the CF Industries did not fail is because of the commitment of the owners. Even though CF
important. In order to increase the crop yield, fertilizers are used. These fertilizers can come in two forms, inorganic and organic. Also, though these fertilizers may help the human race increase food supply, fertilizer, in excess, can damage the natural environment, killing other organisms. Fertilizer is comprised of three major macronutrients and whether it is organic or inorganic, it can have negative effects on the environment. Fertilizers play a major role in increasing the yield of a crop
Fertilizer is the most important component that the plant uses in its growth and development. A natural fertility of the soil takes a hundred years before it produces. Some decayed plants and animals are sources of organic fertilizer. By definition, organic fertilizers are derived from animal or vegetable matter, (e.g. compost manure). In contrast, the majority of fertilizer is extracted from minerals (e.g. phosphate rock) or produced industrially (e.g. ammonia). Naturally occurring organic matter/organic
is because of a phenomenon known as eutrophication. Eutrophication is when there is an excessive amount of nutrients in a body of water and it causes an abundance of plants to grow. In this case the nearby farms had been using nitrogen in their fertilizers. The nitrogen got carried into the ocean through rain and other forms of water. Nitrogen is an important aspect for plants to grow and a lack of it is normally what contains plants from growing in an excessive amount. Because farmers mainly use
The oasis agro-ecosystem is a combination of human settlement and a cultivated area (often a palm grove) in desert or semi-desert environment (Jaradat, 2011). Oasis expansion in arid regions is usually regarded as the opposite to desertification, referring to the process of transformation from desert to oasis in an arid region due to combined action of anthropic and natural factors (Wang, 2009). In MENA, approximately 4 million people live within the system. About 1.2 million ha of irrigated cropland
disadvantages. The first defect is that not all kinds of plants can benefit from this organic fertilizer specially the plants that prefer alkaline soils. Using this as an organic fertilizer to non-acid loving plants could just stress or kill the plants. The second defect is fertility. Peat moss has a low nutrient content profile and does not contain beneficial microorganisms, which means that it will not act as a fertilizer in your garden. However, beneficial microorganisms can live in peat moss if you introduce