Lesson: A technique to reduce fertilizer amount needed

2. Fertilizer away from

plants is not absorbed
but leaches and is lost

1. Traditional
practice is
to broadcast
fertilizer

3. Farmer must
buy lots of fertilizer
which costs money

5. But money wasted

4. Good
harvest
7. Measure fertilizer using a bottle cap
6. Better
practice

8. Add fertilizer
only to base of
each seedling

9. Fertilizer is
absorbed by plant
not leached

11. Less fertilizer purchased,

saving money

10. Same good harvest

Manish N. Raizada, Ph.D.; Lisa Smith, Illustrator

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