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Nitrogen is a nutrient that plants use to grow vegetative matter. Potassium and Phosphorous are used by the plant to produce flowers and fruit.
Also both phosphorous and potassium are elements
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Would growing two different crops in alternate rows reduce the farmers need to add chemicals to a field?
That's one way organic farmers use to avoid using chemicals. The planting of complementary crops and interplantings can help prevent the intrusion of a multitude of pests. It doesn't work for existing industrial (commercial) agriculture because all the equipment and production methods are dependent on the system being a monoculture in order to gain economy of scale.
Why do farmers use protective gear when using calcium hydroxide?
Because they do
How nanomites can used as aweapon?
One way that nanomites can be used as a weapon is by using them to poison a water supply or crops.
Why do most farmers don't like using fertilizer?
because they dont want fertilicer to his farming.i like popola
How would the soil biota be affected by using traditional chemical pesticides and would this differ from using transgenic methods?
Traditional chemical pesticides contain harsh chemicals that contaminate crops. Transgenic methods are much cleaner.
In what ways do farmers contribute nitrates to the soil?
by using fertilizer
Can you give a sentence using the word bountiful?
Corn crops were bountiful this year. Bountiful crops meant farmers could pay their bills.
How did farmers get their crops to market in the 19th century?
by using boats to go up and down rivers
How did farmers use the Nile to grow their crops?
it helps by giving them water for their crops and they're is good soil witch makes it even better and faster for the crops to grow
How did farmers grow crops in the rainy lowlands if Mesoamerica?
by using slash and burn agriculture
Why do farmers used fertilizers?
Farmers use fertilizer because they need it for their crops to grow very big and be sold for more and more easily. It is also because as you use the same land repeatedly for farming the essential nutrients from the soil drops. So to enhance the nutrients in the soil for the plants or crops to grow faster the farmers add the required fertilizers to the soil. Care should be taken in not using excessive fertilizer which might damage the crops.
How do farmers use rivers for irrigation?
It contributesto farming by using the water to feed there crops
What do farmers do to add water to dry areas?
Using irrigation by pumping water from a nearby river or stream, and spraying the water over the crops.
Why are farmers using organic methods to grow their crops nowadays?
organic methods like manure,worm,seaweed ,etc do not pollute the soil.
Is a deposition constructive or destructive?
Both! Constructive: It can form delta! Destructive: It can take away soil that farmers are using to grow crops! Hope that this helped!!
How do nitrates get into drinking water?
It is very difficult to pin point exactly where the Nitrate supply is coming from. One way nitrates get into the water is the farmers using Fertilizers and pesticides contain high amounts of ammonia and when ammonia oxidizes it produces nitrates that get washed into streams and in underground water supplies. Another way is that when plants die they produce nitrogen and when nitrogen forms with oxygen it produces nitrate which again gets washed into the soil.
How do farmers contribute to the pollution of the environment?
Through kaingin, that may cause to deforestation and eventually soil erosion, landslide and mudslide are bad to our environment. Farmers burn a certain land for planting crops to become fertile wherein fertile soil is good to plants. Fertile soil is good to plants but kaingin is bad to the environment.
