Sentence examples for need for fertilizers from inspiring English sources

— Patrick Farrell The New York Times: The Agriculture Department is experimenting with agriforestry, planting crops among trees to reduce the need for fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation.

Availability of dung is also limited by feeding practices and the need for fertilizers.

Genetic engineering, in contrast, may well understand and quantify the productive performances of GMOs or their advantages in terms of a reduced need for fertilizers, but cannot predict or even foresee the medium- and long-term risks of introducing species that are alien to the global homeostatic equilibrium of the biosphere.

The symbiotic relationship between these three crops makes efficient use of farmland, regulates moisture and sunlight, and eliminates the need for fertilizers and pesticides.

They act as a disease break, allow more options for control of grass weeds and as nitrogen-fixing legumes, reduce the need for fertilizers, enrich the soil for subsequent crops [ 2].

Use of native plants can also minimize the need for fertilizer and water, experts said.

The clover or other strip-cover crop also helps nourish the soil when it dies, reducing the need for fertilizer.

The nutrients in the treated sewage benefit the crops by reducing the need for fertilizer inputs, and reduce pollutant runoff because the plants absorb some of the nutrients.

Demand from China is currently weak, but the country's need for fertilizer and imported foods look important for Potash's future.

To cut the need for fertilizer, researchers have sought to develop crop plants that use nitrogen more efficiently.

Conventional agriculture can quickly and easily strip soil of its nutrients, which causes a need for fertilizer inputs (on top of the inevitable pesticide inputs).