5 Big Lies And 8 Big Sweet-talk Of Fertilizer Industry!
5 Big Lies And 8 Big Sweet-talk Of Fertilizer Industry!
In recent years, a variety of “concept” marketing, “misleading” marketing, “lie” marketing, and “nothing out of nothing” marketing forms for new-type fertilizers, many of which are designed to deceive farmers, are typical illegal behaviors.
Share some of the common tricks and “misleading practices” of fake and substandard fertilizers with distributors and farmers to be aware of being cheated.
5 Big Lies
Lie 1: Foliar spray can be applied, without base fertilizer and topdressing fertilizer
At present, foliar topdressing alone cannot meet all the nutritional needs of plants, and foliar topdressing can only be applied as a very minor means of topdressing (accounting for less than 5% of the whole growth period)! At present the application most is the nitrogen fertilizer, the calcium fertilizer, the iron fertilizer and so on.
Lie 2: much liar in biology fertilizer
common tricks include:
- pass off organic fertilizer as biological fertilizer
- bacteria species are increasing—There is the biological fertilizer that contains 5 kinds to reach above kind of beneficial bacterium rarely on the market, the expert of Ministry of Agriculture suggests: biological fertilizer adds microbial kind should not exceed 3 kinds!
- The number of bacteria is higher! The high quantity of bacteria brings two problems: one is the increase of cost; The second is the adverse effect of excessive microorganisms on crops, such as inhibiting growth. But farmers shouldn’t worry about whether they’re adding more bacteria. They should worry about whether they’re adding functional bacteria.
Lie 3: water soluble fertilizer
- imported water soluble fertilizer is the most propaganda slogan. But in fact, more than 90% water soluble fertilizer are domestic producing.
- true chelate trace element water soluble fertilizer is almost not seen in the market.
Lie 4: application at a time, do not need top fertilizer
8 Big”sweet-talk” Of Fertilizer Distributors
Sweet-talk 1: Use farmers’ recognition of certain fertilizers to mislead farmers by often making some unknown words, including: 3 ammonium, 4 ammonium, 5 ammonium.
Sweet-talk 2: Especially in grassroots agricultural stores, in order to make huge profits, they promote organic – inorganic compound fertilizer, the total content is very high, but the effective ingredients of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium is very low.
Sweet-talk 3: They often tell farmers that these are : Imported nano magnetic agent, activator, photonics, antifreeze factor, sun protection factor contented, long acting factor and other magic things.
Sweet-talk 4: A few manufacturer pretend to be tenary fertilizer with binary fertilizer however.
Sweet-talk 5: Whole element, muti-function, whole nutrition, whole crop showed on the fertilizer bags.
Sweet-talk 6: The content of NPK fertilizer 48% noted, in fact only 10~24% content
Sweet-talk 7: Inferior product package is stamped “the country ministry recommends products”
Sweet-talk 8: Use low content fertilizer for high content and other low price fertilizer for high price fertilizer, fake imported fertilizer and get license domestic.
Summary: Get high-grade fertilizer, manufacturers should put the benefit of farmers in the first place. However, Beidou company has always followed this principle by processing high-quality fertilizer mixing production line; Belt-scale-batching Water Soluble Fertilizer Line and Round Ball Bio Organic Fertilizer Production Line .
This article is contributed by Beidou Overseas Business Department. Welcome you to forward.
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