Fertilizer price hike pushes Brazil to hi-tech alternative

Brazil, Brazil- Brazil is racing to introduce high-tech alternatives to fertilizer to boost agricultural production because global price rise Russia’s war in Ukraine deepened.

Drones fitted with cameras hover over centuries-old fields, allowing farmers to use fertilizer only where it’s really needed, while nearby laboratories use the same lasers NASA installed on Mars to analyze soils in seconds. To do. Special white gels place nutrients near plant roots with microscopic precision, preventing waste, and scientists at Embrapa, Brazil’s state research agency, help the poorest farmers make their own feces using microbes from cow’s intestines. helping to convert it into fertilizer.