Reducing Nitrogen Key To Planetary Health | Climate Change

let’s move on now reducing nitrogen from

Global agricultural lands is an urgently

needed reform , alternating crops by

optimizing use of nitrogen can help

yield huge environmental and health

benefits . the reduction of nitrogen from

crop fields in particular will also help

in boosting food production. calling it a

Grand Challenge the international

researchers in a study say that , the

Intensive use of chemical fertilizers

will help fuel the four-fold expansion

of the human population over the last

century . continuous seeping of nitrogen

to soil and air leads to deadly

pollution , soil acidification, climate

change ,ozone depletion and heavy

biodiversity loss . for the survival of

all life on Earth especially plants the

use of nitrogen is a must.

nearly 80 percent of the Earth’s

atmosphere is nitrogen but over a period

of time, the nitrogen cycle has been

massively affected by the use of some

120 million tons of chemical fertilizers

each year.

according to researchers less than half

of that input is actually absorbed by

plants , with the rest seeping into the

environment and causing a constellation

of problems . to decrease nitrogen losses

while still enhancing crop yield

researchers suggest that one opt for

crop rotation. where a variety of crops

are planted on the same plot of land

optimizing the flow of nutrients.

to initiate The Virtuous cycle of

financial budget could be secured by

taxing food consumers or Enterprises

that use farming for commercial food

production, or by taxing polluting

activities and products.

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