Why the use of Chemical Fertilizer is Bad

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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 faster.
The question is asks if the use of chemical fertilizer is bad for crops.
Our group argues yes. Yes, chemical fertilizer is bad for crops and the environment around it too.
Our first reason is that chemical fertilizers contain many elements that are bad for crops.
-Chemical fertilizers contain salt that is bad for the crop’s soil. It consumes the soil’s important nutrients and minerals that are normally found naturally in crop’s soil. Many people think that using chemical fertilizer will replenish the lost nutrients, but the fertilizer only replenishes nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. A lot of times, phosphorus is drained from the soil into groundwater. Phosphorus does not dissolve in water, causing water contamination to many water resources. It could hurt both crops and humans. The phosphorus can also cause soil to harden when the chemical fertilizer is used over a long time.
-Also, all chemical fertilizers are highly acidic which causes the soil to have a lot of acid. Acid reduces the beneficial organisms and decrease crop growth.
The second reason is that chemical fertilizers cause the crop to be weaker.
- Although chemical fertilizers help crops grow faster, the fertilizer causes crops to be weak and unhealthy. The fertil...

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