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Department of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Animal Sciences, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia In agricultural systems, there are many sources of nitrogen such as mineralisation, mineral and organic fertilizer and legume-based agricultural systems. Concerning the environmental problem, all of them have advantages and disadvantages in providing soil nitrogen. For example, mineral fertilizers have many benefits compared with others like high nitrate flux in soil rooting, high vegetation uptake, high soil productivity and ease of calculation of nitrogen provision to plants. They, however, will influence ammonia emission, soil acidity and high nitrate leaching. Organic fertilizers, on the other hand, have advantages in term of releasing nitrogen to the soil and recycling; reducing supply of an expensive industrial product, although they influence air pollution by releasing ammonia and odour pollution, and it is difficult to predict the minimum rate, particularly in cool climates.
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Widjajanto, D.W. (1996). Environmental advantages and disadvantages of different sources of nitrogen in agricultural systems. In: Rodriguez-Barrueco, C. (eds) Fertilizers and Environment. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1586-2_43
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