Is it better to use farmyard manure or chemical fertilizer to grow vegetables (the reason why farmyard manure is beneficial to the growth of crops)

Rural areas have begun preparing for spring ploughing, and farmers are preparing to buy corn seeds, rice seeds, and other vegetable seeds. Some farmers are preparing to buy fertilizers.

But in rural areas, if you raise cows and pigs at home and don’t have much land to farm, you generally don’t buy chemical fertilizers, you just use farmyard manure.

Why do farmers prefer to use this troublesome farmyard manure instead of this convenient chemical fertilizer? Xiao Wu asked several old farmers in the countryside, and this is what they said.

The first is to save money

The current price of fertilizers is not cheap. For example, urea costs more than 100 yuan for 100 kilograms. These costs are also quite high. One mu of land requires dozens of kilograms of urea, and the compound fertilizer also costs hundreds of kilograms.

In this case, the cost of fertilizer for one acre of land is several hundred yuan, plus the cost of planting rice and pesticides, so the cost is very high.

In general, in rural areas, if there are families raising pigs or cows, they rarely use or do not use chemical fertilizers, and they always give priority to farmyard manure.

The pig manure and cow manure at home are free of charge. You just need to spend some time picking them up from the fields.

The second one can improve the environment

We all know that pigs and cows raised in rural areas will produce a lot of feces. If these feces cannot be picked up and put into the fields.

If it is allowed to scatter freely in the countryside, it will become very smelly. It will also damage the environmental sanitation in the countryside and increase the number of flies and mosquitoes. This is very, very bad.

If we use this manure on our own fields, not only will our crops grow well, but it will also improve our living environment, which is a win-win situation.

The third safety

Crops grown with organic fertilizers are tastier and safer than those grown with chemical fertilizers.

Have you noticed, especially in cities, when we go to the market to buy vegetables, if you see elderly people taking a little bit of vegetables or picking some vegetables and putting them on the ground to sell.

Although these vegetables don't look very good or beautiful, they are grown by old farmers using their own organic fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers.

If you buy this kind of vegetable and cook it, it is obviously tastier and sweeter than those professionally grown vegetables. It is also safer and healthier to eat, and it will be of great benefit to the human body.

This is probably the main reason why people in cities nowadays yearn for rural life and like to go to the countryside to buy rice and vegetables grown by farmers.

The vegetables professionally grown in the city do not use farmyard manure. Instead, they are grown using chemical fertilizers throughout the entire process. Vegetables grown with chemical fertilizers are more prone to diseases and pests.

Therefore, they also spray a lot of pesticides, but there is no moderation in this regard. They spray pesticides every day and sell vegetables. Therefore, eating these vegetables is very unhealthy for people's bodies.

Therefore, in rural areas, people would rather use inconvenient feces to grow crops, and are not used to using convenient chemical fertilizers to grow crops.

Friends, in your place, when growing crops, do you use chemical fertilizers or farmyard manure? What are the pros and cons of each? Welcome to leave comments below.