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Fertilizers
have been the important horizon for several
years past and from all appearances should
continue to a considerable future distance.
A subj
ect that has attained as much importance
as the American and soviet space programmes,
fertilizers have projected themselves into
an important orbit amid present day complexities.
It is but common knowledge that these chemical
combinations are of direct lineage to human
nutrition and with recent spurt in population
statistics, have been pressurized into significance,
that even Vietnam crisis can stem. Without
fertilizers, so called “Green Revolution”
is a farce. It is becoming an accepted fact
that chemical fertilizers have a definite
role to play in raising the productivity
of land to provide more food and clothing
to the raising population of the world.
Up to present Ammonium Sulphate has been
the most popular nitrogen fertilizer among
farmers. Urea is also competing with Ammonium
Sulphate, where lack of sulphur is likely
to be a problem. But the availability of
gypsum has solved the problem to some extent.
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