Different types of fertilizer used and developed to supply the nutrients needed by plants. Fertilizer is defined as one of the materials that come in sprinkle the soil or planting media with the aim of meeting the nutrients that plants need. Material fertilizers have many different forms ranging from liquid to solid ranging from natural to inorganic.
Organic fertilizer is the fertilizer that comes from dead plants, animal waste and parts of animals and other organic waste that has been through the process engineering, solid or liquid, which serves to enrich the soil and address the nature of the various characteristics that exist in the ground. While inorganic fertilizer is fertilizer processing chemical engineering, physics or biology, and is the result of industrial or plant fertilizer. The following difference organic and inorganic fertilizer.
1.Raw material and type
The basic difference between organic and inorganic fertilizers are raw materials of manufacture. The content of nutrients contained in organic fertilizers derived from natural materials that become raw material for making organic fertilizer, while the inorganic fertilizers, which contain elements derived from synthetic materials or chemicals are added.
The materials can be used in the manufacture of organic fertilizer can be derived from manure, compost, vermicompost, peat, seaweed and guano. Based on the raw material, organic fertilizer can be made from animal manure, green foliage and a mixture of both types of content. Foliage used as fertilizer will produce green manure. Green manure itself is derived from the weathering of fertilizer plants, both crop plant residues, or plant commonly used as a fertilizer. The materials used for the manufacture of green manure, for example, is a legume or nuts and Azola or water plants selected because it is rich in nutrients, especially nitrogen content.
Stools were selected as the basis of organic fertilizer will produce manure. The content of the manure was different, mainly distinguished by the absence of animal urine feces utilized. Besides green manure and manure, compost is also a kind of organic fertilizer. Compost derived from the weathering of organic matter through biological processes with the help of decomposing organisms, which is usually in the form of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and molds, or microorganism like earthworms. In manufacturing, the compost can utilize or eliminate the air.
In contrast to organic fertilizers that utilize natural materials, inorganic fertilizer uses chemicals in their manufacture. The combination of chemicals that will generate the content of inorganic fertilizers macro elements that plants need. Inorganic fertilizer itself can consist of a single type of inorganic fertilizers and compound. Single inorganic fertilizers containing only one type of macro elements such as nitrogen, while the inorganic compound fertilizers may contain more than one instance of macro elements blend elements of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium or mix of nitrogen and sulfur in a single type of fertilizer. In compound fertilizers, nutrients are used according to the elements required by plants, such as diammonium phosphate containing nitrogen and phosphorus.
2.Ingredients and Benefits
The other difference h natural and artificial fertilizers are in the womb and the resulting benefits. Because it is made from natural materials, organic fertilizer can contain both micro-nutrients and macro required by plants, and plants need substances growth regulators, whereas the inorganic fertilizers there are only macro elements are derived from chemicals is added to the fertilizer. Macronutrients contained in inorganic fertilizers is limited only to the elements that are added. Suppose the only urea fertilizer are nitrogen, or NPK fertilizer containing only nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
In contrast to inorganic fertilizers or artificial, organic fertilizers or natural fertilizers may contain various kinds of macronutrients in the fertilizers, such as the elements carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O2), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulfur (S), Calcium (Ca) and Magnesium (Mg). Natural fertilizer also contains various micronutrients such as iron (Fe), Chlorine (Cl), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), Boron (Bo) and Molybdenum (Mo). Various PGR is also contained in the organic fertilizer. PGR role in regulating the cultivation of plants.
PGR also called hormone regulating botanicals (plant hormone) were classified into five types of auxin, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene and inhibitors. The use of natural ingredients from plants as organic fertilizer can stimulate plants to produce PGR increasingly useful for its growth. Hence the use of raw materials in organic fertilizers is strongly influenced by the intended use of fertilizers. When aimed at maximizing the growth of leaves, then you should use organic fertilizer made from leaves. Similarly, if you want to use fertilizers to maximize the growth of stems and fruit.
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Benefits of using inorganic fertilizers tailored to micronutrients it contains. Some of the elements that are widely used are nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and sulfur with the following benefits:
Nitrogen (N)
The element nitrogen is used in the growth, especially in the vegetative phase to the growth of leaves, stems, and branches. Nitrogen also plays a role in the formation of chlorophyll, protein and fat.
Potassium (K)
Potassium plays a role in helping the growth of protein and carbohydrates, strengthens the plant tissue and plants play a role in the formation of antibodies that can fight disease and drought.
Phosphorus (P)
Phosphorus is useful in root formation, accelerate the aging fruit, plant stems strengthen and increase the yield of grains and tubers. Phosphorus also serves to assist in the assimilation and respiration.
Sulfur (S)
Sulfur plays a role in the formation of root nodule, formation of buds and the formation of chlorophyll and amino acids.
In contrast to inorganic fertilizers that have benefits that are tailored to the nutrients they contain, organic fertilizer has all the benefits and, coupled with the benefits of micronutrients also contained.
3.Advantages and disadvantages
Although it contains all the nutrients needed, both macro and micro nutrients, the nutrient content in organic or natural fertilizers smaller numbers should be given in relatively large amount. Conversely, the inorganic fertilizer contains fewer nutrients are very limited and dependent on chemicals are added, but the amount of the deposit is more, so its use is not as much use of organic fertilizers.
Organic fertilizer not only provides nutrients needed by plants but also play a role in improving soil properties, especially their biological properties. Using organic fertilizer can increase soil's ability to increase the supply of nutrients that can be absorbed by plants. Not just nice plants, organic fertilizer, is also good for improving and maintaining soil structure. Inorganic fertilizer only provides the nutrients needed by the plants so and can not increase the ability of soil to produce the nutrients. The use of inorganic fertilizers must be given in the right dose because it can affect the characteristics of the ground and excessive use can damage the soil.
While organic fertilizer can act as a buffer pH of the soil that will maintain the balance of the situation, the inorganic fertilizer is very likely to affect the acidity of the ground and change it. Fertilizers with a sulfur content as ZA can quickly change the acidity of the soil with lower levels of acidity, because the characteristics of sulfur ion carry, so the use of inorganic fertilizers should be tailored to the characteristics of the soil so as not to damage the structure and balance.
The content of nutrients in large quantities contained in the inorganic fertilizer him to quickly provide results for plants. Meanwhile, because it contains small amounts of nutrients, organic fertilizer will be slower results when compared with inorganic fertilizer. The amount of organic fertilizer should dig will be more when compared with inorganic fertilizer, to provide a similar amount of nutrients between the two types of fertilizers.
Various natural and artificial fertilizers differences are shown in different types of organic and inorganic fertilizers. Both types of fertilizers have advantages and disadvantages, but its use is appropriate course adapted well to the characteristics of plants, soil, and its financial condition will provide maximum results.
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