Sentence examples for use fertiliser from inspiring English sources
A recent NBER paper by Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson argues that a tendency to procrastinate may explain why so few African farmers use fertiliser, despite knowing that it raises yields and profits.
Farmers will continue to use fertiliser because it is reliable compared with the very variable mineralisation and yield from various kinds of manure.Anthony TrewavasEmeritus professorUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghCustom madeSIR – Congratulations on handling such a complex subject as the Pushtunwali tribal code in a fair and balanced manner ("Honour among them", December 23rd).
Better intentions made little difference: virtually all farmers said they planned to use fertiliser the following season, but only 37% actually did so.The reason for this gap between intent and action, the economists argue, is that many farmers are present-biased and procrastinate repeatedly.
"People are very aware of choices related to driving, water use, fertiliser pollution and so on, but they are less aware of the impacts that their choice to have a pet – and the choice to have a certain kind of pet – has on the environment".
Technology means a lot of things: drip irrigation, no-till farming, more efficient ways to use fertilisers and kill pests.
Farmers forgot their craft, their knowledge of crop rotation, good husbandry, green manures, because they could just use fertilisers and pesticides.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilisers heavily.
The divide between the two groups is not just sartorial, but stems from the fact that many golf clubs use huge amounts of water, disfigure the landscape and use fertilisers and pesticides to keep their greens lush.
Consumer pressure will force farmers and food processors to make it easier to trace foodstuffs and use fertilisers and antibiotics more sparingly.In the longer term, however, another, far bigger risk looms.
The answer is to use fertilisers in a far more efficient and better targeted way, so that just the right dose is given to each plant with minimal run-off or waste – a concept known as micro-dosing.
For explosives he uses fertiliser provided by farming friends.
