The idea of eliminating the use of fertilizers which are sometimes environmentally unsafe is slowly becoming a reality because of the emergence of microorganisms that can serve the same purpose or even do better. Depletion of soil nutrients through leaching into the waterways and causing contamination are some of the negative effects of these chemical fertilizers that prompted the need for suit...

Priester et al. (1) recently investigated the growth of soybean in soil amended with ZnO and CeO2 manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs). It is laudable that the study used soil: Too few studies to date do this. However, we question the agronomic and environmental relevance of this study because of a lack of control experiments with a soluble salt (for ZnO) and with larger-scale particles (for ZnO o...

in order to investigate the gas separation ability of a column packed with nanozeolitic material, nano nay zeolite was synthesized and granulated. these uniform granules packed in a chromatographic column were utilized for separation of xe and kr under various operating conditions. with regards to the response peaks obtained from trace injections of xe and kr into the column, the first and seco...

farmers' behavior can be affected by different socio-economic factors. the purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of interpersonal information sources on grape farmers’ behavior in terms of optimum use of fertilizers in their vineyards. the data for this survey were collected using a questionnaire through structured interviews. a sample of 260 out of 3942 grape farmers of the khora...

in order to investigation the effects of different combination and amount of chemical, biological and organic manure in present of water absorbent materials on some phenological, morphological and yield of soybean, a field study was carried out gorgan region climate conditions in a factorial experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replications. in this experiment two lev...

Chemical fertilizer usage has been a long-drawn criticism because of its harmful effects on the environment and quality agricultural produce. Researchers are continually looking for more productive, better solutions while retaining societal wellbeing. Effective use nano fertilizers in place chemical is essential reducing overuse also contribute lowering pollution leaching which turn increase ef...

This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers on nutritive value of safflower forage and silage by in situ and in vitro methods. The safflower forage was harvested at flowering stage, chopped to 3-5 cm particles and then ensiled in the laboratory silos for 60 days. The experimental treatments included: 1. Unfertilized forage (control), 2. Phosphor...