Anzila Altaf and Dr. Muhammad Yaseen
Department of Agriculture Extension, College of Agriculture
University of Sargodha, Pakistan
Fertilizers play an important role in the development and growth of crops. They provide nutrients and nourishment to the soil for increase the fertility of land and growth of crops. The use of dung as fertilizer is probably as old as agriculture itself. With the help of fertilizers, plants become hardy against dangerous plant pathogens, pests, and weeds. Removal of diseases in plants increases the value in the harvest.
Modern artificial fertilizers integrate a minimum one of the three modules that are most substantial in plant nutrition: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Of subordinate significance remain the origins of sulphurmagnesium, and calcium. The proper tillage is maintained by sand, minerals, and organic matter but these do not help in associate and upholding acceptable amounts of food for the plant essential for its nutrition and growth. Fertilizers replace the nutrients that crops remove from the soil. Without the addition of fertilizers, crop yields and agricultural production would be considerably reduced. That’s why mineral fertilizers are used to complement the soil’s nutrient stocks with minerals that can be rapidly engaged and used by crops.
Thus, in order to see human dietary requirements in the crops and meat we eat, we need to replace what we take out. The key is to get this balance right and to maintain a level of nutrients in soils that will support our crops without involving excess. When it comes to the advantages of using fertilizers in agriculture, it’s all about productivity. Chemical fertilizers allow cultivators to exploit their crop yield exact piece of land the more the plant grows.the better. Fertilizer works to confirm that each piece of land harvests as capably as likely as long as you recognize how to line the use of chemical fertilizers, they can flat make else poor feature terrestrial produce important yields.
Now that you understand the importance of fertilizer, the following step is selecting the right fertilizer for your exclusive necessities. You force be a minute overcome when it comes to the many different products functioning in the fertilizer space. That said, don’t care it’s usually fairly easy to crack down your range, depending happening your exact needs.
Modern chemical fertilizers include one or more of the three elements that are most important in plant nutrition. There are many different types of fertilizers nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, ammonia, etc. they may provide nutrients to the soil which help in the growth and development of soil. Farmers must contact the agriculture extension agent for guidance and know-how to apply seeds and fertilizers on their crops for good yield and development. Crops may face many different types of diseases like pests attack and some others which are very harmful to all types of crops. In case of a disease attack on crops, farmers must contact the agriculture extension agent. They guide the farmer for treatment for fertilizers and visit the field with full attention.
To estimate the optimum rate of tender other bases that underwrite nitrogen and phosphorous to the soil should be measured. Organic material and dung underwrite phosphorous. Crops can speedily take up nitrate forms of nitrogen but are substances to leakage harm. Fertilizer with nitrogen should be imperfect when leakage probable is reasonable to high. If the leakage probable is reasonable to extraordinary, ammonium nitrogen fertilizers must be used because they do not matter to percolate proximately. Though, in earnest, moist circumstances ammonium rapidly cracks into nitrate. More gradually obtainable nitrogen fertilizers should be used in these conditions. Though phosphorous is less disposed to percolate, loss concluded surface excess is common so phosphorous should only be realistic as desirable and at suggested charges. Fertilizers are supplementary to crops in order to produce sufficient food to nourish the human inhabitants. Fertilizersdeliver crops with nutrients like potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen, which permit crops to cultivate larger, later, and to yield additional food. Fertilizers play an important role in providing that crops with the nutrients they essential to cultivate and be garnered for nutritious food. Fertilizers help transport sufficient food to nourish the world’s inhabitants. But they can do straight more. These nutrients allow plants to cultivate. Farmers turn to fertilizers since these materials comprise plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Fertilizers are basically planted nutrients speculative to agricultural grounds to complement essential elements institute obviously in the soil. Soils obviously comprise many nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, calcium, and potassium. These nutrients allow plants to cultivate. When soil nutrients are disappeared or in little source, plants hurt from nutrient shortage and stop mounting. When the nutrient level is excessively low, the plant cannot occupy properly and produce the food essential to feed the worlds’ inhabitants. As soon as crops are garnered for human feeding, the natural source of nutrients. That is why farmers add nutrients to their soils. Nutrients can be further from a variety of sources organic material, chemical fertilizers, and by some plants. This preserves the soil richness, so the farmer can continue to cultivate nutritious crops and vigorous crops.
Farmers may apply different types of fertilizers on their crops; such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Fertilizers are the nutrients of plants to increase the production level and growth development of crops. Fertilizers play an important role in the start of agriculture. In other country, people used simple fertilizers. Most farmers apply new different types of fertilizers on their crops for nourishment and development of crops. Anyhow of the source of the fertilizer, all plants use the same inorganic forms of fertilizer in the soil. Occasionally the source of nitrogen can be plants known as “nitrogen fixers.” Many farmers use crops, for example, soybeans and alfalfa that can reduce naturally arising nitrogen in the atmosphere, and fix in the soil for future crops.
Fertilizer use is very costly and can damage the environment if not apply properly. Therefore, before adding fertilizer, farmers send a soil sample to a workshop for standard testing. By testing their soil, farmers know which nutrients and how much to apply to the soil. If too small an amount is added, crops will not yield as much as they should. If a high amount of fertilizers are applied to the crops they may destroy the yield. If a very small amount of fertilizers are applied on the field crops they show no result and the yield or production level of crops remains constant. For the good yield of crops, farmers should apply a normal amount of fertilizers on crops. An agriculture officer may guide the farmers for fertilizers’ quality and quality of seed for good development and high yield.
Today humans may also need good food for stay healthy and safe. The claim for food and other products from agricultural systems will increase the next few eras. Its means we need to keep our soils healthy and full of nutrients in order to nourish the growing population. In agriculture, fertilizers are very important. They provide nutrient components to the soil for a good production and high variety of crops. A small number of fertilizers are applied on crops not very high and not very small. A higher amount of fertilizers may cause destroy the crops and low productivity level. Today farmers are not concerned with extension agents for guide. An extension agent may guide the farmers; how to use fertilizers, how to select the number of fertilizers, how to apply fertilizers, how to harvest crops. Thus it is very important to make contact with extension officers or agent to manage our farm or field to produce a large amount of crops yield and development and production of crops. There are many different types of fertilizers that are applied on crops to produce good yield of crops. To increase soil fertility farmers may concern with extension agents in the agriculture department they should guide the farmers to manage their farms or field to produce a good yield of crop. The agriculture department may provide extension agents to the farmers for their welfare and guide.
In agriculture, fertilizers play a vital role in the development and growth of crops they also increase the fertility of the soil. The agriculture department provides an extension agent or extension officer for a perfect guide of farmers in our surroundings. For example; an extension officer known the good quality of seed and good quality of fertilizers or proper amount of fertilizers applied to the crops. If we have a good quality of seed then we apply too much amount of fertilizers on crops it may damage the crop and we face loss in development and yield of crops. Different types of fertilizers are required for different crops today farmers have no idea how to apply the perfect amount of fertilizers to their fields. It is very necessary to make contact with an extension agent from the agriculture department for guidance. A good yield is produced from the farmers and fertility of the soil is increased thus the use of fertilizers on two types organic and inorganic fertilizers are important. Organic and inorganic fertilizers play an equal role in the development and nourishment of crops for good yield.
