To grow healthy crops full of nutrients, farmers need to ensure they have healthy soil. Without fertilizers, nature struggles to replenish the nutrients in the soil. When crops are harvested, important nutrients are removed from the soil, because they follow the crop and end up at the dinner table. If the soil is not replenished with nutrients through fertilizing, crop yields will deteriorate over time. Careful analysing and fertilizing of crops enables a chain that provides humans with nutritional food: The nutrients feed the soil The soil feeds the plants Plants feed animals and people The three most common mineral fertilizers are those based on nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The International Fertilizer Association (IFA) estimate that 85% of the soils globally are deficient in nitrogen. 73% of the soils are deficient in phosphorus, whereas 55% lack potassium. What is fertilizer used for? Often, the plants have few possibilities to avoid nutrient deficien
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