ECONOMICS AND COSTS OF USING ORGANIC AND CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH | ||
| Journal of Environmental Science | ||
| Volume 52, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 51-66 PDF (1.04 M) | ||
| Document Type: Review Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jes.2023.211140.1527 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Doaa N. Abu Bakr* 1; Seham Ahmed2; Hoda Helal3; Yehia Abu Taleb4 | ||
| 1Post Grad student at Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University | ||
| 2) Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University | ||
| 3Department of Economic, Legal and Environmental Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University | ||
| 4Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| It’s obvious that the massive technological development in all the agricultural and industrial sectors has gained many benefits for human beings and made life easier and more luxurious, despite that the man began to feel many negative changes that may threaten his health and the whole ecosystem. This study focuses on the main need for human beings which is food that is primarily produced from agricultural crops. Overpopulation and the need for food security both stimulated the agricultural vertical expansion that mainly depends on the chemical fertilizers in the agricultural processes that increases the production. The excessive usage of synthetic fertilizers instead of the organic ones led to many harmful effects on human and animal health, many worldwide studies refer those effects to the overuse of chemical fertilizers. In Egypt, agricultural statistical data refer to the excessive usage of chemical fertilizers and to the low quality of agricultural crops. This study offers an applicable solution that presents the possibility of the development of the organic fertilizers industry in Egypt with an inclusive feasibility study that leads the farmers to mainly count on the organic fertilizers and limit the synthetic ones. The feasibility study concluded that the payback period is about a year and half in addition to the annual increase of the farmer’s income, the good quality of agricultural crops that sustain the public health, the increase of exports opportunities that supports the economy, maintenance of soil quality and lowering methane emissions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Chemical Fertilizers; Organic Fertilizers; Environmental Impacts; Public Health; Digester | ||
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