The Impacts Of

chemical Fertilizers on
the human health and
our Environment
 Introduction

 Chemical Fertilizers increase crop production; their

overuse has hardened the soil, decreased fertility,
strengthened pesticides, polluted air and water, and
released greenhouse gases, thereby bringing hazards
to human health and environment as well.
 Too much chemical in the soil cause soil depletion.
 EFFECTS OF FERTILIZERS

1. Effects on soil
2. Effects on water
3. Effects on Atmosphere
4. Effects on food quality
5. Effects on human health & cattle
6. Effects on the quality of the crops
 EFFECTS ON SOIL

Fertilizer if applied in excess can cause great

harm to soil. These can lead to:–
 Infertile soil
 Acidic soil
 Increased micro organisms
 Salt burns
 Ground water pollution
 Excess growth
 EFFECTS ON WATER

Chemical Fertilizers pollute water bodies

mainly as follows:-
 Leaching
 Run off
 Eutrophication
 EFFECTS ON ATMOSPHERE

 Green house effect – increase in nitrogen oxides due to

nitrogenous fertilizers like urea.
 Ammonia emission from fertilized lands, may be oxidized
and turn into nitric acid, sulfuric acid from industrial
source, create acid rain after the chemical
transformations.
 Nitrous oxide content in the atmosphere has increased by
about 25% over the previous century. About 1/3rd Of this
increase is thought to be due to agriculture practices.
 EFFECTS ON FOOD QUALITY

 Amount of vitamin C decreases with excessive

application of potassic fertilizers.
 Quality and quality of protein produced by plant.
 Increases vulnerability of crop to pests and discuss.
 EFFECTS ON HUMAN HEALTH
& CATTLE
Many diseases have been in human due to use of
chemical Fertilizers such as:–
 Methaeglobinemia
 Japanese encephalitis (JE),
 Cancer etc.
 EFFECTS ON QUALITY OF CROP

 Leads to dwarifism of crops.

 Affect growth of elongation hormones of crops
resulting into dwarf crops.
 With excessive use of urea, plant become succulent
and dark green colour thus becoming more vulnerable
to pests and diseases.
 Increases growth of plants but weakens stem.
 Reduces quality of seeds.