In the next few years, we are likely to witness an increase in the application of smart fertilizers in agricultural production. New products will excel at delivering indispensable elements to crops. Nutrient absorption is also bound to improve, which means that the scale of washout of fertilizers to groundwater will be reduced.

Specifying fertilizer quantity as well as time and place of its application are important factors in agricultural production. Inadequate application may deteriorate the quality of the crops and – in the end – impact the customers’ budgets.

The Central Statistical Office of Poland presented data about the increase of wages in particular sectors of the national economy. We should pay particular attention to the growing income in agricultural and fishery industries.

In their draft budget for 2016, the Polish government allocated almost 54 billion zloty to agriculture. The aim is to provide agricultural entrepreneurs an opportunity to continue developing their farms, based on financing from the national budget as well as EU funds.

Rise of the global population is closely linked to food security, and has become the main threat to the stability of agricultural production in the world. However, researchers have tended to overlook an important aspect of the current demographic boom in the world, namely the shift in the structure of the society.

World Food Programme is a well-known organization to all the people interested in food security. One of United Nations’ agencies, it specializes in fighting hunger in the world.

Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development is a joint enterprise of USAID, the governments of Germany and Sweden, OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) and Duke Energy Corporation. The aim of the competition is to show how innovations and new “green energy generation methods” may impact food production, in particular in the less affluent parts of the world.

Tractors and combine harvesters come to one’s mind immediately when thinking of agricultural industry. Referring to farmers’ work, we tend to imagine a tractor traveling along a field. This staple picture may well be replaced in the next decades of the 21^st century. As soon as in the following decade, drones are likely to become as commonplace in agriculture as tractors and combines.

Ammonium nitrate is one of the most popular simple mineral fertilizers, boasting the highest nitrogen content among fertilizers containing ammonium nitrate.

“Poland as an attractive food producer and supplier” Report was presented in Lublin. The latest publication of PUŁAWY Competences Center was issued under the honorary patronage of the Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development as well as Fertilizers Europe.