Excessive amount of fertilizer applied to the Indonesian agricultural land caused environmental pollution i.e. soil toxicity, and eutrophication. The use of slow-released fertilizer has become a new trend to save fertilizer consumption, and to minimize environmental pollution. Due to its high...

For many years now, nitrate concentrations have exceeded the trigger value of 50 milligrams per liter at nearly one-fifth of the groundwater sampling sites in Germany. Apart from impairing the ecosystem by, for example, causing eutrophication of water bodies, nitrate-polluted drinking water also...