fertilizer

A promising new form of ammonium phosphate fertilizer has been field-tested by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers. The fertilizer, struvite, offers a triple win for sustainability and crop production, as it recycles…

The growing global population needs sufficient food. Its production causes overfertilization and increased nitrogen concentration in agriculture, which negatively affects the population, climate, and ecosystems. According to models of…

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, but the overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture is not sustainable. In a review article publishing in the journal Trends in Microbiology on September 26, a team of…

From recurring harmful algal blooms -- including brown tides -- to catastrophic seagrass losses, fish kills and unusual marine mammal deaths -- including the threatened Florida manatee -- the Indian River Lagoon is environmentally…

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London CNN  —  Grain is once again leaving Ukrainian ports. The price of fertilizer is falling sharply. Billions of dollars in aid has been mobilized. Yet the world…

Industrial production of ammonia, primarily for synthetic fertilizer -- the fuel for last century's Green Revolution -- is one of the world's largest chemical markets, but also one of the most energy intensive. Globally, the Haber-Bosch…

Intensive agriculture is possible only if the soil is fertilised with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. While phosphorus and potassium can be mined as salts, nitrogen fertiliser has to be produced laboriously from nitrogen in the air and…

Union Fertilizers Secretary Arun Singhal during an Interview with The Hindu in New Delhi on November 24, 2022.. | Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy As the sowing for rabi season is at its peak, the demand for fertilisers will also increase. The…

MUMBAI: Russia for the first time became the biggest fertilizer supplierto India in the first half of the 2022-23 fiscal year by offering discounts over prevailing global prices, cornering more than a fifth of the market share, government…