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ECONOMICS AND COSTS OF USING ORGANIC AND CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Economics

Abstract

  It's obvious that the massive technological development in all the agricultural and industrial sectors has gained many benefits for human beings and made life easier and more luxurious, despite that the man began to feel many negative changes that may threaten his health and the whole ecosystem. This study focuses on the main need for human beings which is food that is primarily produced from agricultural crops. Overpopulation and the need for food security both stimulated the agricultural vertical expansion that mainly depends on the chemical fertilizers in the agricultural processes that increases the production. The excessive usage of synthetic fertilizers instead of the organic ones led to many harmful effects on human and animal health, many worldwide studies refer those effects to the overuse of chemical fertilizers.  In Egypt, agricultural statistical data refer to the excessive usage of chemical fertilizers and to the low quality of agricultural crops. This study offers an applicable solution that presents the possibility of the development of the organic fertilizers industry in Egypt with an inclusive feasibility study that leads the farmers to mainly count on the organic fertilizers and limit the synthetic ones. The feasibility study concluded that the payback period is about a year and half in addition to the annual increase of the farmer's income, the good quality of agricultural crops that sustain the public health, the increase of exports opportunities that supports the economy, maintenance of soil quality and lowering methane emissions.    

DOI

10.21608/jes.2023.211140.1527

Keywords

chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, environmental impacts, public health, Digester

Authors

First Name

Doaa

Last Name

N. Abu Bakr

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Post Grad student at Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

Email

duonour@gmail.com

City

القاهرة

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First Name

Seham

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

) Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

Email

seham.hashem@iesr.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-8349-4936

First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Helal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Economic, Legal and Environmental Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

Email

hoda.helal@iesr.asu.edu.eg

City

ُegypt

Orcid

-

First Name

Yehia

Last Name

Abu Taleb

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University

Email

yehia.abotaleb@iesr.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

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-

Volume

52

Article Issue

7

Related Issue

44095

Issue Date

2023-07-01

Receive Date

2023-05-18

Publish Date

2023-07-01

Page Start

51

Page End

66

Print ISSN

1110-0826

Online ISSN

2636-3178

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https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/article_323358.html

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323,358

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Review Article

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599

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Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Science

Publication Link

https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/

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ECONOMICS AND COSTS OF USING ORGANIC AND CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH

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23 Dec 2024