Overuse of

fertilizers and
organic farming
Abdallah Mohammad Nusair, Hesham Sallam, Fares A.M Khalil, Karim Maged, Fady
Describe the negative and positive impacts of water, food and agriculture on the
environment, including:

- define fertilizer and outline the minerals present in commonly used fertilizers

- outline the purpose of using fertilizers

- list and explain the dangers of overusing fertilisers, including land and water pollution

- define organic farming and outline the different methods of organic farming

- describe the advantages of organic farming

Minerals used in fertilizers

● Nitrogen originates from the air

● Potassium is sourced from old sea millions of

years ago

● Phosphate is sourced from insoluble calcium

phosphate rocks

Fertilizer
Fertilizers are additional substances supplied to
the crops to increase their productivity
 Plant Fertilization

Purposes of Overuse of organic

Fertilizers fertilizers farming
Fertilizers provide crops with nutrients However,The overuse of fertillizers can "Organically grown" food is food grown

like potassium, phosphorus, and lead to many issues that are yet to be and processed using no synthetic
solved such as Excess nutrients can fertilizers or pesticides. Pesticides
nitrogen, which allow crops to grow
cause harmful algal blooms in freshwater derived from natural sources (such as
bigger, faster, and to produce more
systems, which not only can ruin/disrupt biological pesticides) may be used in
food.
wildlife but can also produce toxins producing organically grown food.
harmful to humans.
Advantages of organic
Better for the climate
farming

Gets more Profit

Better for the farmers

health
Disadvantages of organic
Time - Consuming
farming

Labor intensive (A Lot

of Work)

Expensive &
significant costs.
 did you know?
China has the largest
fertilizer production
 Our Opinion
Fertilizers are overall used for better
nutritional content and taste,however
we should not completely rely on
them but rather we should alter
between organic grown foods and
fertilizers grown food to keep good
health and thrive as a succeeding
human generation
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