China has less than 9% of the world's arable land, yet uses one third of the world's chemical fertilizers
Guangzhou Daily News (Reporter Liao Jingwen, Correspondents Mo Danni and Chen Chengyue) China's arable land accounts for 8%-9% of the world's arable land area, but each 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 restrict abuse and raise the utilization rate……
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, gave a popular science lecture titled "Problems and Challenges in the Construction of China's Agricultural Ecological Civilization" at Guangzhou No. 2 Middle School.
Organic fruits and vegetables are the most popular foods right now, but in Wu Weihua's view, there is very little truly organic food in China. Wu Weihua said that in addition to polluting the soil and causing high nitrogen oxide residues in agricultural products, the abuse of chemical fertilizers 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.