Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2009
It is designated fertilizer to any organic or inorganic substance that fertilizes the soil and improves the quality of the substrate of this at a nutritional level for the benefit of the plants that are rooted in this.
Among the natural or ecological fertilizers we find the manure mixed with the waste of the farming such as forage or guano, which is the excrement of birds and which also serves the double objective that we mentioned above.
To live, develop and grow, plants need Water like us humans of the air, but in addition to an important amount of minerals that are in the form mineral in the I usually. Fertilizers are vital because they provide plants with essential elements called base such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, secondary, such as calcium, sulfur and magnesium and other trace elements such as iron, manganese, copper, boron, zinc, among others.
Nitrogen is what helps to develop the aerial parts of plants and is very necessary at the time of the
spring when vegetation begins. On the other hand, phosphorus gives it greater endurance to the plants and adds for their root development. And finally, potassium is decisive when it comes to promoting flowering and fruit development.But also the term fertilizer has another meaning widely disseminated as the previous one and that designates that sum of money that is paid for example for the use of a service, for example the subscription of the telephone.
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