Question

make the table of advantage and disadvantage of artificial fertilizers​

Answer 1

Answer:

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages of applying fertilisers to the land:

• It increases crop yield and improves poor quality land.
• Manure improves soil texture, recycles nitrogen and introduces essential bacteria.
• Pasture is improved so animals fatten up quicker.
• Once marshland is drained, fertilisers can help reclaim that land for pasture
• Crops grow faster – particularly when hybrid seeds are used.

Disadvantages of using artificial fertilisers:

• Crops grow better, but so do weeds. Therefore herbicide sprays are required too.
• Better quality plants attract insects so pesticides may be needed.
• Excess nitrogen from fertilisers gets into water supplies, causing fish to die.
• Chemicals need to be used safely. In poorer countries in particular, farmers can
• damage their health by applying fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides incorrectly.
• Artificial fertilisers, applied without organic additions, do not improve soil structure.