Sustainable agriculture, characterized by farming profitably while minimizing damage to the
environment, is not easy to practice.“Conventional agriculture” worldwide is commonly …

Organic fertilizers are naturally available mineral sources that contain moderate amount of
plant essential nutrients. They are capable of mitigating problems associated with synthetic …

Intensive agricultural practices to meet the current world food demand are the main cause of
degradation of soil health and environmental pollution. In traditional agriculture, synthetic …

In the Taihu region of China, overuse of chemical nitrogen (N) fertilizer is often associated
with low nitrogen recovery (NRE) and leads to serious groundwater pollution caused by N …

A lot of attention has been paid in current literature to sewage sludge due to its increasing
amount and problem with its disposal. In the age of expensive energy sources and depletion …

Controlled release nitrogen fertilizers (CRNF) possess good nutrient release performance
and application prospects. Under the dual pressures of food security and environmental …

Global demand for food is increasing in terms of the quantity, quality and reliability of
supplies. Currently, over 90% of our food is grown on (or in) a virtually irreplaceable, non …

Although phosphorus (P) recovery and management from sewage sludge are practiced in
North America and Europe, such practices are not yet to be implemented in China. Here, we …

One-time application of mixed fertilizer formed by the compounding of two controlled-release
nitrogen fertilizers (CRUs) with targeted N supply during the periods from transplantation …

Context Whilst mineral fertiliser is required to meet nearly 50% of global crop demand, its
production is energy intensive and contributes close to 2% of the global emissions of …