Importance Of Fertilizers

Fertilizers are very important for the growth of plants as they provide plants with all the minerals that they do not get from the air and soil alone. Fertilizers are minerals used to provide plants with nutrients that are deficient in soils. Many fertilizers are extracted and purified from the natural deposits in the earth. The most important contribution that fertilizers have made is in preserving wildlife habitat. Fertilizer use has allowed farmers to continuously achieve high yields on the same land for many years, eliminating the need for clearing new lands and including the use of fertilizers, could double or possibly triple food production. Most fertilizers consist of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium.it is also listed on the label of fertilizers as N-P-K. These are mainly what plants lack of from the absence of fertilizers and are provided to plants by them. The numbers beneath each of the letters in N-P-K tell us how much of each element the fertilizer consists. Nitrogen is an essential nutrient required for things such as plant growth, development and reproduction Nitrogen is also vital because it is a major component of chlorophyll, the compound by which plants use sunlight energy to produce sugars from water and carbon dioxide (i.e., photosynthesis) Plants also need to have nitrogen in the soil in order to build proteins and nucleic acids properly. Without nitrogen the leaves would turn yellow, the growth of the plant would be slow and the plant would wilt very