Sentences with phrase «synthetic nitrogen fertilizer»

Large amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer are applied around the world to ensure high plant productivity.
Because of this, peas often do not require synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and other possible additives, decreasing the amount of harmful resources needed while keeping vital nutrients needed to grow the plant.
We aim to understand the evolution and mechanisms of plant - cyanobacteria symbioses, and the results of which will lay the foundation for future engineering of «self - fertilizing» crops with less reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.
Priority # 2 is balance out the added cost for plants with reduced expenditures on other inputs - for example, to eliminate synthetic nitrogen fertilizer entirely and replace with pee.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in organic production and encourages natural compost.
Pesticides, irrigation projects, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizer contributed to a massive agricultural advance.
The nitrogen put into the soil by the soybean plants reduces the amount of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer required for the crops, usually corn, that follow in the field's rotation of crops.We all know that the commercial production of food is dependent on oil and the processing, transportation, and combustion of this oil releases a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2010, one of its properties, Fern Road Farm, avoided using about 19,600 pounds of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and 595 pounds of pesticides — while boosting revenue some 40 percent.
Conventional stockless arable farms depend on the input of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, while stockpiled manure and slurry on livestock farms create additional emissions and other environmen - tal problems.
Furthermore, there are strong indications from many cases that application of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers can lead to losses of soil organic matter (Khan et al. 2007, Mulvaney et al. 2009).
Most agriculture relies upon energy subsidies for transporting crops to market, running farm equipment, and the production of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides.
Unfortunately, the EPA estimate of 18 % still doesn't include a large portion of the fuel, the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, some of the nitrous oxide, all of the CFCs and bromines, and most of the transport emissions.
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