Abstract: Background: Most agriculturalists use excess commercial fertilizers with the notion that some will be eroded and leached eventually causing eutrophication and alters soil pH that increases Cd and Pb uptake in crops .Nanoparticles have numerous adsorption sites that reduce Cd and Pb uptake in crops and it has controlled release of nutrients guaranteeing longer interaction with the crops to ensure safer and higher crop yields to feed sporadic growing population. Materials and Methods: This study uses nanohydroxyapatite adsorbents from waste bones to synthesis nanofertilizers by encapsulating with DAP and.....
Key Word: Nanofertilizer; Amendment; Uptake; Nanohydroxyapatite; Bone Ash.
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