What Is the Role of Carbon Fertilizer? A Detailed Explanation of Carbon Fertilizer's Effects

Carbon fertilizer is a new type of agricultural product that has emerged in recent years. Many people do not know much about carbon fertilizer, so what are the effects of carbon fertilizer?

1. Basic Introduction to Carbon Fertilizer

Carbon fertilizer is an essential fertilizer type for crops, because carbon is the first of the six major elements that plants require. Carbon accounts for 58% of the organic matter of crops and 30%-35% of dry matter.

In artificial cultivation, especially when organic fertilizer is neglected and chemical fertilizers are applied excessively, the proportion of plant tissue structure becomes unbalanced, leading to problems such as thinner crop leaves, hollow and bloated stems (less dry matter), poor taste, susceptibility to disease, and premature aging of plants.

Therefore, carbon fertilizer needs to be applied. In nature, elemental carbon forms various highly stable structures in many different forms, so using these substances as carbon fertilizer is meaningless. Just like almost all mineral nutrient elements, carbon fertilizer does not exist in the form of elemental carbon. It must form some kind of compound that is easily soluble in water to be convenient to use, and this compound is fulvic acid.

2. Effects of Carbon Fertilizer

1. It increases the soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, enabling microorganisms to reproduce better and indirectly improving soil biological and physical fertility;

2. It makes the soil loose and crops grow better;

3. It improves soil physical properties and achieves the effects of nitrogen fixation, phosphorus release, and potassium activation.

3. Mechanism of Carbon Fertilizer's Effects

Liquid carbon fertilizer increases the soil carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N), giving soil microorganisms good conditions for reproduction. The massive reproduction of soil microorganisms improves the soil's biological fertility and physical fertility, thereby further improving the utilization rate of mineral nutrient elements such as N, P, and K in the soil. After using liquid carbon fertilizer, the soil becomes loose and the crop root system becomes more developed. This also proves that soil compaction is mainly due to a lack of carbon, not due to the use of chemical fertilizers.

The effects of liquid carbon fertilizer on soil and crops include both the direct effect of inputting nutrients to crops like chemical fertilizer nutrition and the comprehensive effect produced by improving the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers and improving the soil.