What are some of the effects of agricultural chemicals on farmland?
Agricultural chemicals can also significantly increase crop yeilds in the short term by limiting damage by pests, competition for water and nutrients from weeds and by providing large amounts of nutrients in a form that is easily available to plants. In the long term these processes can lead to serious depletion of soils because the natural process of converting organic matter to tilth and the balance of microorganisms in the soils has been disrupted.
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