Tomatoes grown with organic mulch and
less chemical fertilizer (right) do better than those raised under more conventional conditions.
Teaming up with fellow top employer Monsanto, Novozymes» scientists are developing microbial seed treatments that will yield more corn and soybeans, ideally with
less chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or water.
Not exact matches
Organic baby food is known to have
lesser chemical contents than the food cultivated in the «traditional» process, i.e., using
chemical fertilizers, pesticides etc..
Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much
less input in terms of
fertilizer or
chemicals.
Unfortunately leafy greens (and I eat tons of them) and other magnesium rich foods have been becoming
less and
less rich in magnesium over the years, as the soil becomes depleted by
chemical fertilizers, and overloaded with pesticides and more.
We would typically get minerals from our food, but since soils are being depleted via continuous usage, monoculture crops and nasty
chemicals to reduce pests, unwanted vegetation and the use of artificial
fertilizers,
less minerals are bioavailable today than ever.
They rely
less on
chemical fertilizers due to their ability to recycle nutrients from the atmosphere back into the soil, making them a highly sustainable choice.
But as successive technological innovations — the internal combustion engine, electric motors,
chemical fertilizer — came on the scene, a curious thing happened: farmers with more education began outperforming those with
less.
While the application of chemistry to crop production is still
less than 100 years old, the
fertilizer industry as now constituted is quite old as years are reckoned in
chemical industry.