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CCM believes that it is a great time for bio fertilizers to develop in China due to bad influences of the overuse of chemical fertilizers. It is predicted that 14 million tonnes of bio fertilizers will be applied in China in the near future.
Source: Bing
Action Plan of Zero Growth on Chemical Fertilizers by 2020 published by China’s Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) in February has pointed out that chemical fertilizers have been overused in the production of China’s agriculture today.
China
has produced 16% of the total grain in the world, but has applied 31% of the
total chemical fertilizers during the production, according to biotech.org, an
informative portal for China’s bio-technology.
Half
of the applied volumes of chemical fertilizers in China can be totally reduced
based on the standard applied proportion between grain and fertilizers.
The
misuse of agrochemicals has worsened the fields, which has led to the spread of
soil-borne diseases, and the decrease, acidification, hardening, salinization
and excess of heavy metals of the soil organic matters. All of these problems
would directly affect the safety of the agriculture products.
Moreover,
most of the Chinese farmers focus too much on the basal dressing during
fertilizing rather than the top dressing, said Professor Zhang Fusuo of School
of Resources and Environment, China Agricultural University.
“The
overuse in the basal dressing is a big problem in China” commented Professor
Zhang.
“It
took the farmers in British 20 years to decrease the dose in basal dressing
from 90% to 20%. China needs more time, perhaps 100 years.”
A golden chance for
bio fertilizers
Action Plan of
Protection and Improvement on the Field Quality published by MOA on
November is a detailed version of Action
Plan of Zero Growth on Chemical Fertilizers by 2020. It emphases that China
needs to adjust the application structure of fertilizers, increase the
efficiency in applying fertilizers and develop the new fertilizers.
With
the beneficial policies, CCM believes
that it is a great chance for the new type of fertilizers to develop.
Among
all the new fertilizers, bio fertilizers have the most potential, according to
CCM. Compared to chemical fertilizers, bio fertilizers have its unique
advantages in reducing the application volumes of chemical fertilizers and
pesticides, increasing the yield of crops and improving the quality of crops.
“China
has the most need to develop and apply bio fertilizers than any other country
in the world” said Li Jun, Director of Bio Fertilizer Supervision and
Inspection Center of MOA.
“The
long-term application of the chemical fertilizers has caused a serious of
problems in agriculture production: both the soil productivity and fertilizer
utilization have decreased; the soil quality has declined; the safety of the
agriculture products becomes more and more serious.”
“To
solve these problems, applying bio fertilizers is the key” stated Li.
Farmers
can apply only a small amount of bio fertilizers to get good results on in the
crops. Bio fertilizers can activate the soil and improve the efficiency of
fertilizers. Also, bio fertilizers are quite functional. It can work as a
decomposer to decompose the straw and toxic or harmful substances in the soil.
It also serves as a transformer to transform the nutrients such as phosphorus
and calcium.
Compared
to chemical fertilizers, bio fertilizers can increase 20% of the crop yield and
decrease 20% of the chemical fertilizers and pesticides application, according
to Biotech.org.
The
application volumes of bio fertilizers in China will reach 10% of that of
chemical fertilizers, with the volume of 14 million tonnes in China in the near
future, stated by an industry insider.
With
the support in the 13th Five-year plan from the government, the volumes of bio
fertilizers will occupy about 15% of the total fertilizers in China and it will
be applied in over 26.7 million ha of fields.
Problems in bio
fertilizers
Though
the development of bio fertilizers has a promising future, CCM considers that
it will face a series of problems in promoting and managing.
According
to some farmers, the input of applying bio fertilizers is high than that of
chemical fertilizers in the first 2 years. The input of the bio fertilizers is
5% to 10% higher than that of chemical fertilizers in every 0.067 ha.
Moreover,
the extra spending in the bio fertilizers is a lot. The farmers need to pay
extra money to hire people to produce the formula fertilizers.
For
most of the farmers, the short-term high input of bio fertilizers makes it
difficult for them to give up on the chemical fertilizers.
At
the meanwhile, though it is required by MOA since 1996 that the products of bio
fertilizers should be inspected and registered by MOA, a lot of products
haven’t been registered, which has caused the results that some products with
substandard quality still enter the market.
If
you would like to know more about the bio
fertilizer industry in China, please click
here!
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