Fertilizers maintain soil fertility so farmers can grow nutritious and healthy crops. Farmers use fertilizers because these substances contain plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which helps the crops. Organic matter is anything that contains carbon compounds, formed by living organisms. Covers a wide range of things such as, leaves, stems, moss , algae, insects, etc.
Leaching is known as the loss of water soluble plant nutrients from the soil, due to rain and irrigation. Soil structure, crop planting, and rates of fertilizer are taken into account to avoid excessive nutrient loss. Fertilizer enter groundwater in two ways, nitrate is highly soluble and readily leaches into groundwater, nitrate-nitrogen can cause an inability to use oxygen in the water.
Algae bloom is a rapid increase in population of algae in freshwater/the marine water systems. Decomposition is the process that organic substance are broken down into much simpler matter. Biochemical oxygen demand is the amount of dissolved oxygen that must be present in water in order for microorganisms to decompose in water. This will cause a negative effect because in the spring and summer lakes are often supersaturated with oxygen due to the amount of plant (algae) The extra oxygen is released to the atmosphere and are no longer available to decompose organic matter. This will then cause the depletion in the deeper layers of lakes in autumn.
Canada has it so that fertilizers imported into or sold in Canada are regulated by the CFIA under the authority of the federal Fertilizers Act and regulations.
Alternatives to fertilizers would be coffee grounds, coffee grounds contain substantial amounts of potassium and phosphorous and some amount some nitrogen. calcium, copper, and magnesium that are essential nutrients for plants.
Leaching is known as the loss of water soluble plant nutrients from the soil, due to rain and irrigation. Soil structure, crop planting, and rates of fertilizer are taken into account to avoid excessive nutrient loss. Fertilizer enter groundwater in two ways, nitrate is highly soluble and readily leaches into groundwater, nitrate-nitrogen can cause an inability to use oxygen in the water.
Algae bloom is a rapid increase in population of algae in freshwater/the marine water systems. Decomposition is the process that organic substance are broken down into much simpler matter. Biochemical oxygen demand is the amount of dissolved oxygen that must be present in water in order for microorganisms to decompose in water. This will cause a negative effect because in the spring and summer lakes are often supersaturated with oxygen due to the amount of plant (algae) The extra oxygen is released to the atmosphere and are no longer available to decompose organic matter. This will then cause the depletion in the deeper layers of lakes in autumn.
Canada has it so that fertilizers imported into or sold in Canada are regulated by the CFIA under the authority of the federal Fertilizers Act and regulations.
Alternatives to fertilizers would be coffee grounds, coffee grounds contain substantial amounts of potassium and phosphorous and some amount some nitrogen. calcium, copper, and magnesium that are essential nutrients for plants.