What is the ecological impact of use of fertilizers?
- Fertilizers applied to crop plants are lost in surface run-off water and pollute soil and water resources.
- Increase in crop yield.
- Decrease in nutrient content in the soil.
- Decrease in the number of microorganisms in the soil such as saprophytic bacteria.
- Nitrogen and phosphate-based fertilizers leach into ground water and increase its toxicity leading to water pollution.
- They change the chemical composition of soil.
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