Controlled Release Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture

Controlled Release Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture provides a comprehensive examination of precision fertilizer applications using the 4-R approach-the right amount of fertilizer at the right time to the right plant at the correct stage of plant growth. This volume consolidates detailed information on each aspect of controlled release fertilizers, including up-to-date literature citations, the current market for controlled release fertilizers and patents. Presenting the tremendous advances in experimental and theoretical studies on sustainable agriculture and related areas, this book provides in-depth insight into state-of-the-art controlled release mechanisms of fertilizers, techniques, and their use in sustainable agriculture. Conventional release mechanisms have historically meant waste of fertilizers and the adverse effects of that waste on the environment. Controlled release delivery makes significant strides in enhancing fertilizer benefit to the target plant, while protecting the surrounding environment and increasing sustainability. Presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights specifically focused on the controlled release of fertilizers Explores the benefits and challenges of 4-R fertilizer use Includes expertise from leading researchers in the fields of agriculture, polymer science, and nanotechnology working in industry, academics, government, and private research institutions across the globePresents the tremendous advances in experimental and theoretical studies on sustainable agriculture and related areas INDICE: 1. Controlled Release of Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture: State of the art, opportunities and novelty2. Conventional methods for fertilizer release3. Fate of the conventional fertilizers in environment4. Controlled release of fertilizers- concept, reality and mechanism5. Controlled and slow release fertilizers6. Characteristics and types of slow- and controlled-release fertilizers7. Methods for controlled release of fertilizers8. Manufacturing of slow- and controlled-release Fertilizers9. Factors controlling the release of fertilizers, Advantages and disadvantages of slow- and controlled-release fertilizers 10. Options for the application of slow- and controlled-release fertilizers, Consumption and economics of slow- and controlled-release of fertilizers11. Costs and benefits of slow- and controlled-release fertilizers, Sensors detecting controlled fertilizer release12. Trends and technologies behind controlled release fertilizers13. Nanotechnology in controlled release fertilizers14. Polymer formulations for controlled release of fertilizers15. Chemistry and toxicology behind chemical fertilizers, Theory and simulation modelling of controlled release of fertilizers16. Controlled release of organic fertilizers, Future of controlled release fertilizers

• ISBN: 978-0-12-819555-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 612
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés