Explain how excessive use of nitrate fertilizers in agricultural fields affect human life.

Excessive use of fertilizers in agricultural fields affects human life in an adverse manner. The ways in which affects are listed below:

Excessive use of nitrate fertilizers does not allow any organic replenishment of the soil, they completely depend on those fertilizers for nitrate due to which activities like nitrogen fixation gets affected and no such process take place as farmers don’t grow legumes for organic replenishment of the soil and land start becoming infertile.


As these fertilisers are used in excess and when are washed away and enters the water bodies also affects the aquatic life and is also responsible for their killing.


These fertilizers being used in excess enters the food chain and starts accumulating at some level and thus harms the complete ecosystem.



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