What is urea: composition, benefits and harms

Urea is a nitrogen-based chemical compound used in industry. In organic chemistry, the composition has different names: carbonic acid diamide or urea. Urea is a mineral fertilizer used in the agricultural business. Flavourless colorless crystals (with good solubility in water) are the final product of protein synthesis. In crop production, the value of urea in high nitrogen content is 45%.

What is urea: benefits and harms

The value of urea in affordability, ease of use and excellent yield. If we compare urea with other mineral fertilizers, the compound is not toxic, due to the complete absence of chlorine. In use, urea is not limited to:

 

• Presowing soil replenishment after winter “rest”. Mineral fertilizer is applied when planting soil in early spring. Excess ammonia evaporates in the open air, and the soil is saturated with nutrients important for the development of microorganisms.
• Vegetative dressing. It is used only for artificial irrigation of the soil. Urea is mixed with water and sprayed in the fields.

 

Urea is an oxidizing agent, which means that the chemical composition introduced into the soil shifts the pH of the soil to the acid side. Manufacturers of organic fertilizers, promoting their own expensive products, are betting on this factor. In fact, this is not critical. Restoring pH, for example, with limestone (alkali), will solve the problem of agrarians. In total, urea, limestone and diesel fuel for working in the fields will still cost several times less than buying organic matter.

 

 

The application of mineral fertilizers is often associated with the harmfulness of grown plants to the body. But this does not apply to urea. The drug always remains harmless to humans - in free form, or in the final product. And even, on the contrary, most organic drugs are harmful than urea.

 

 

Having understood what urea is, the agrarian will definitely draw conclusions and make his own decision. After all, an advertisement that is replete with on the covers of agricultural magazines and in the media is aimed at “drawing in” the popular drug. It is not beneficial for sellers of expensive fertilizers to have people use affordable fertilizers. Hence the hundreds of negative reviews about urea.

 

 

In general, urea is an ideal solution for a garden, kitchen garden, business. For any agricultural needs. Keep track of soil composition (pH) and correctly calculate the dosage (as indicated by the manufacturers on the packaging). And, by the way, do not mix urea with the seeds of crops when sowing - otherwise the plant will die in the bud (burn out).