What are the advantages and the disadvantages of fertilizers?

Answer 1

That they encourage a rapid turnaround time between sowing and seeding and that they increase production yields but that they deplete soil fertility and promote polluted runoff are advantages and disadvantages of using fertilizers in the field.

Specifically, fertilizers give plants what plants needs as well as where and how they need it. Major field concerns about timing and yields get the cultivator's attention. But fertilizers in the field can require quite a bit of time and money spent on dealing with fertilizer side effects. For example, fertilizer applications often are accompanied by problems that must be addressed regarding soil food web population decline, soil fertility depletion and polluted nutrient runoff.

Answer 2

That they aid plant and soil health and that they encourage dependent growth and have side effects are examples of advantages and disadvantages of fertilizers.

Specifically, fertilizers add necessary nutrients to poor soil. They aid in better soil structure whereby particles hold together but also provide pore space for air and water. But at the same time, fertilizers become crutches and have side effects, such as affecting the availability of other nutrients in the soil.

Answer 3

Phosphorus is bad for the soil in that its overuse may lead to its leak into underground aquifers. The warning light turns red when phosphorus enters water, cos it results in growth of algae, which take up way too much oxygen.

Answer 4

Balanced nutrient dispersal in spaced releases imitative of Mother Nature's ways and overall well-being over lushness are respective advantages and disadvantages of organic fertilizers. Non-organic fertilizers have a reputation for concentrating on nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium even though soils and soil food web members (including plant roots) require mandatory doses of macro- and micro-nutrients. They tend to focus upon lush, quick growth of marketable parts over careful attention to each above- and under-ground part developing as and when it should.