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Why do farmers add nitrgoen fertilizers but not carbon fertilizers to fields?
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∙ 13y ago
Because all plants are able to extract plenty of carbon dioxide from the air, which gives them plenty of carbon. Nitrogen has to be in a form usable to the plant, which only symbiotic bacteria on the roots of legumes are able to take out of the air.
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How do farmers use fertilizers to help their crop yield?
They spread them on the fields where it feeds the plants and make them grow bigger/faster.
What year was fertiliser invented?
Probably before recorded history, when farmers put the dung of their cattle on fields. Or did you mean chemically synthesized nitrogen fertilizers? If so, look up Haber-Boshe process.
How do Fertilizers help to increase agricultural production?
Encouraged foreign trade. Constructed waterwheels. Converted bad land into agricultural fields.
How farmers reduce level of acidity in soil?
Spreading chalk, lime or blast furnace slag is mainly spread on fields to counter the acidity.
Why do farmers add nitrogen in their fields to make their crops grow?
Because for many crops, nitrogen is probably the single most important plant nutrient.
What is the advantage of some fertilizers are sprayed over crops by helicopters?
Fertilizers are spread on fields by farmers to help their crops grow.
How do farmers use fertilizers to help their crop yield?
They spread them on the fields where it feeds the plants and make them grow bigger/faster.
Why does the pH level in soil change?
Mostly on farmland because of chemical fertilizers, which over several years will tend to acidify the soil somewhat. That is why farmers "lime" their fields every few years.
What year was fertiliser invented?
Probably before recorded history, when farmers put the dung of their cattle on fields. Or did you mean chemically synthesized nitrogen fertilizers? If so, look up Haber-Boshe process.
In Egypt how did farmers get water to there fields?
farmers used the shaduf to irrigate their fields :):) its true
Farmers Living conditions in the 1900s?
no black farmers were allowed to work the fields.
What is a critically important component of fertilizers used on lawns gardens and crop fields?
nitrogen
Where in England is lettuce produced?
In farmers fields.
Why do farmers use manure on their fields?
For fertilizer.
What did farmers do in the season of Akhet?
Since the fields were filled with water the farmers word for the king. Instead of working in the fields they helped work on the temples and pyramids.
What did Mesopotamian build to irrigate their fields?
Mesopotamia farmers built canals to irrigate their fields.
How can fertilizers used on lawns and fields affect a lake?
They can stimulate excess plant and algae growth
