Why should you use organic fertilizers? (its surprising advantages)

Immediacy is perhaps the most prized quality of the industrial age, after financial gain. We are continually thinking about gaining time; we want the immediate, efficient, that involves the least effort, to continue with the frantic mission that we seem to have: to produce.

At some point, after the Industrial Revolution, countries focused on growing their economies at the cost of anything, including the deterioration of their own home, the Earth. The immediacy, its haste and the foolish mentality of always producing more, reached all types of work vocations; of course, among them, to the ancient agriculture.

With this, to maximize production and reduce costs, artificial fertilizers were created as a way of restoring its vivacity and nutrients to the land, which are usually lost after incessant planting of the land. Although organic residues have been used for thousands of years to make natural fertilizers such as the manure of dozens of species and vegetable or animal residues, these have a drawback for the paradigm of the time in which we live: their effects are slow to be absorbed and, therefore, immediacy is not a notable attribute in them.

For their part, artificial fertilizers, which are made based on industrial processes with chemicals such as nitric acid, sulfuric acid and ammonia, release nutrients into the soil such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Artificial fertilizers (many of them contain insecticides and herbicides), unlike natural ones, are immediately absorbed by the soil, which makes crops accelerate.

However, the fact that inorganic fertilizers are so quickly absorbed by the soil also has its negative costs. Among their harmful effects are the contamination of the surrounding and underground water, an increase in toxic salts in the soil when they are applied in large quantities, and their worst risk is in the long term: they degrade soil life and kill useful microorganisms for nutrition. of the plants. That is, over time not only is the land not really nourished, but it quickly becomes obsolete.

We list some of the advantages of using organic fertilizers, which you can make yourself from simple composts. For example:

  • There are many types. Manure fertilizers can be from cow, sheep, bird and horse. There is also compost or green manures.
  • There is less danger of overfertilization if decomposed organic material is added to a garden.
  • The absorption process of an inorganic fertilizer is as follows: the same microorganisms in the soil are the ones that degrade the fertilizer to form water-soluble compounds (ie, non-polluting), which are the ones that the plants take advantage of.
  • Organic fertilizers increase the action of fungi and bacteria that benefit the soil.
  • They cause the fungi responsible for the plants to take advantage of the nutrients to multiply significantly.
  • Organic matter creates an environment that facilitates the development of organisms such as earthworms.
  • Organic fertilizers are very rich in micronutrients, in addition to having macronutrients.
  • Organic fertilizers improve the soil structure enormously.
  • The use of organic fertilizers helps to retain nutrients in the soil.
  • They allow to take advantage of organic waste.
  • They allow the fixation of carbon in the soil and improve the capacity to absorb water.
  • They usually need less energy to make.
  • They maintain the necessary humidity in the soil for each type of plantation.

    • Organic fertilizers prepare your soil for a long life. They create the necessary conditions for the soil to heal: like a micro-world where strong and long-term regeneration grows. There is no comparison to the life you will inject into the soil in the future using organic fertilizers, compared to (seemingly comfortable) artificial fertilizers.

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