China has less than 9% of the world's arable land, yet consumes one third of the world's chemical fertilizers

China's arable land accounts for 8%-9% of the world's arable land area, yet every year it consumes 35% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer. The abuse of chemical fertilizers not only leaves nitrogen oxide residues in agricultural products and degrades the ecology, but also directly worsens air and water pollution, and is one of the main sources of smog pollution. Legislation is urgently needed to limit abuse and raise utilization rates……

Yesterday, Wu Weihua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society, and professor at China Agricultural University, held a science popularization lecture titled "Problems and Challenges in the Construction of China's Agricultural Ecological Civilization" at Guangzhou No. 2 Middle School.

⟦NL> Organic fruits and vegetables are currently the most popular foods, but in Wu Weihua's view, China has very few truly organic foods. Wu Weihua said that the abuse of chemical fertilizers not only pollutes the soil and causes high nitrogen oxide residues in agricultural products, but is also one of the main sources of nitrogen oxide pollution in the air and water. In the smog pollution currently spreading across the country, the abuse of chemical fertilizers is the main “accomplice” after industrial production and vehicle exhaust. Pollution of water bodies also cannot be ignored, and it even affects the water source area of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.