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24. Fertilizers and Food Production

Author : Amit H. Roy

Published in: Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology

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Abstract

Fertilizers provide plants with the nutrients they need for their growth and development. Plants live, grow, and reproduce by taking up water and nutrients, carbon dioxide from the air, and energy from the sun. Apart from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which collectively make up 90–95% of the dry matter of all plants, other nutrients needed by plants come essentially from the media in which they grow—essentially in the soil. The other nutrients are subdivided into primary nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) and secondary nutrients (calcium, magnesium, and sulfur). In addition, plants also need other nutrients in much smaller amounts, and they are referred to as micronutrients (boron, chlorine, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc).

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Metadata
Title
Fertilizers and Food Production
Author
Amit H. Roy
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4259-2_24