Crop response to fertilizer application is in majority of the situations showing declining trend when balanced fertilization has not been practiced. The soils are also getting continuously depleted of secondary plant nutrients and micronutrients. Some areas of the Punjab, for instance, have been earmarked as hotspots for environmental degradation, a matter of huge concern to everybody, due to inorganic fertilizer abuse, rampant industrial growth, unscientific disposal of domestic effluents, etc. Nutrient management and environmental pollution, in particular, under inevitably fast change of the climate in diverse agro-ecosystems in the country throws up new challenges to the nutrient management scientists and fertilizer technologists. This subsequently pose newer challenges to all concerned for higher nutrient use efficiency in the background of environmental degradation in particular.

The Society of Fertilizers and Environment (SFE) have the overall mandate to address these key issues along with other related aspects.

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