Using current broadcast technology, most nitrogen is lost to the air and water, and rice plants actually use only one bag of urea in three. Urea deep placement (UDP) puts nitrogen near rice roots so ...
UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer without the intensity of emissions associated with fossil-fuel-powered factories.
While most countries rely on natural gas, China’s coal‑based urea industry has cushioned it from the Iran war and the price ...
A guide to nitrogen fertilizers for vegetables, including the best organic and synthetic feeds to use to boost your harvests ...
By Ella Cao, Colleen Howe and Naveen Thukral BEIJING/SINGAPORE, April 7 (Reuters) - Farmers around the world may be switching to less nutrient-hungry crops as the Iran war hits the supply of ...
Researchers at the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan tested the urea fertilizer, which helps feed ...
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are some of the most abundant microorganisms in the ocean and play a key role in nitrogen cycling. Yet, despite their ubiquity, scientists have long puzzled over how ...
The Government of Bangladesh has announced that it will expand urea deep placement (UDP)—a technology that doubles the efficiency of urea fertilizer use—to almost 1 million hectares (ha) of rice land, ...