5 things you didn’t know about fertilizers

We have prepared a selection of interesting facts about them for you.

1. 50% of the food we consume today is grown with the help of fertilizers.
2. Two out of five people in the world owe their lives to fertilizers. Since their invention, they have saved more than 2.7 billion people from starvation.
3. In 1903, the scientist Kristian Birkeland built an electrical device that short-circuited during a demonstration. Thanks to this, he discovered the possibility of extracting nitrogen from the air for the subsequent production of mineral fertilizers.
4. Over the next 50 years, farmers will have to produce more food than they have grown in the last 10,000 years. Fertilizers will play a huge role in this.
5. We obtain all the minerals we need from the plants and crops we consume. The presence of these minerals in plants is ensured by applying the right type of fertilizer.