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It is particularly when they are applied in excess that fertilizers are disadvantageous for food.

Specifically, fertilizers emphasize rapid growth and harvesting of lush shoots. They ignore other equally important life processes such as plant immunity. They therefore tend to be accompanied by pesticide applications, which control the problem but have environmental side effects such as residue.

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