Pros And Cons Of Fertilizers

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 and potassium, which plants require for growth.

Fertilizers promote growth, as they contain nutrients that plants require for full development and growth. Both fertilizers contain macronutrients and micronutrients such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and many more. Each mineral has different roles in plant growth. Plants obtain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from the air and from water.

Pros and Cons of Organic Fertilizers and Pest Control:

Organic Fertilizers has many pros and cons in which link to Pest Control. The cons dominate the pros. The Pros include: Improve soil health, Improve quality of the crop, Raise soil pH and cause no salt build ups.

Organic matter enriches the soil causing the humus (top layer of the soil) to be richer in minerals. These minerals are obtained by the plants and are used to improve development of the plant, growth of the plant and the quality of the products produced.

The quality of the fruit or vegetable is improved as the plant obtains all the micro and macro nutrients that are required for that development of the plant. The application of the Inorganic Fertilizer is not required frequently causing less labor and reducing the cost. Organic Fertilizers release their mine...

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...e money they can make as well as get enough money for their family to survive on. Farmers have to produce enough yields to bring in money so they can educate their children and provide all the needs for their families.

Farmers produce different goods and supermarkets chose the cheaper option as if their prices are too high the community will not pay for these goods.

Interests of the community:

The community is people who buy what farmers produce. Farmers are forced to grow crops at a fast rate as they supply supermarkets every 2 or 3 weeks with fresh goods. People don’t buy goods that are bruised or damaged as it’s seen as “bad quality”.

The people of the community are important as they are the ones who purchase these goods and without them the economy will decrease due to an increase of money. Without the choices and likes of people farmers wouldn’t be successful.