ABSTRACT
The positive role of fertilizer use in agricultural production and productivity is well known. The economic benefit of fertilizer use has contributed to increased agricultural productivity and higher living standards. With the increased influence of fertilizer use on total crop production, the public, environmentalists, and legislators are more keenly aware of fertilizer production, use, and its fate. In the past few decades, fertilizer production facilities have increased in individual capacity, and the fertilizer complexes have become more concentrated in specific geographic locations. Thus there has been a greater need to decrease the percentage or total loss of undesirable by-products and effluents to the environment [ 1].
