How Do You Make Granular Fertilizer for Optimal Plant Growth?
Chemical fertilizer is a type of fertilizer in the form of dry solid pellets that provide essential nutrients to plants and improve soil properties. It releases nutrients over weeks to months, feeding plants gradually.
Like liquid fertilizers, it contains 3 essential nutrients namely nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). The lack of any element will affect the normal growth and development of crops.
Therefore, agriculture cannot be developed without fertilizers. Granular fertilizers are essential for increasing crop yields. This blog is a step-by-step guide to Granular Fertilizers Production Process.
Step 1 Mixing of the fertilizer ingredients
Based on the soil analysis, you can identify the specific nutrients required to supplement the soil and determine the nutrient ratios. Once the raw materials are acquired, it is time to create the granular fertilizer blend.
Use a mixer to obtain a homogeneous mixture. The uniform mixing of fertilizers not only refers to the individual mixing of new substances like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, but also includes the mixing of new substances and returned substances.
The granulated fertilizers can be divided into two types according to their composition.
1. Nitrogen fertilizer, phosphorus fertilizer, potash fertilizer, and compound fertilizer (NPK fertilizer)
Raw materials such as urea, ammonium nitrate, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, ammonium phosphate (monoammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, coarse whiting, single superphosphate), potassium chloride (potassium sulfate), etc. shall be provided at a certain ratio (according to market demand and soil test results in various regions).
Organic fertilizer granules
This fertilizer has recently become more popular. It is to convert high-moisture organic matter like livestock manure, crop straw, household garbage, and sludge into pellets that are easy to spread on fields, lawns, and gardens.
Note: The organic fertilizer should be fermented for 15-20 days before crushing.
2. Crop straw: Important fertilizer component, containing N, P, K, Ca, S, and other nutrients necessary for crops.
3. Household garbage: Leftovers, rice washing water, discarded fruits and vegetables, expired dairy products, etc.
4. Cake fertilizer raw materials: Cake from rapeseed, cottonseed, bean, sesame, castor, tea seed, etc.
5. Sludge: Unpolluted mud from rivers, ponds, ditches, ports, lakes, etc.