In Britain and other developed countries, farming is essentially a business. Like all business, the farmer's aim is to make as large profit as possible. To achieve this, the farmer needs to achieve high yields of the crop(s) which provide the best economic return as efficiently and as cheaply as possible. To obtain high yields, farmers need to manipulate the environment of their crops. This is were the fertilizers take their role to help in the farms.
Fertilizer is generally defined as "any material, organic or inorganic, natural or synthetic, which supplies one or more of the chemical el…
