Food production remains the highest agricultural priority, subject to the constraint that it be done in harmony with nature, or at least with minimum environmental pollution. The amount of fertilizer applied can be controlled using modern application techniques, including soil and crop management, guaranteeing higher economic profit and lower environmental cost. It is in such a context that the present book addresses the efficient and rational use of mineral and organic fertilizers while preserving environmental quality. The book discusses the impact on surface and groundwaters, soils and crops, and experience of nitrate leaching, denitrification, ammonia volatilization, heavy metal pollution, agricultural and urban waste management, and international and national legislation. Audience: Agronomists, environmentalists, soil and food chemists, ecologists, policy makers, and managers in the fertilizer industry concerned with the trend of public opinion.

This report is an investigation of the fertilizer situation in Latin America with special emphasis on the region's fertilizer supply/demand conditions, raw materials resources, capability of the region to produce N, P2O4, K2O, and the outlook for expansion of the fertilizer industry.

This document examines fertilizer use and marketing to small farmers in the Dominican Republic. The effort was not intended to be an in-depth country study. It was designed to assemble secondary data and opinions of those knowledgeable of the Dominican Republic small farm and fertilizer situation and to organize that data for planning purposes by the USAID Mission to the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic Government in developing fertilizer-related action programs designed to increase the domestic food supply.