TVA fertilizer technology used worldwide -- but few new products...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sun, 08/24/2008 - 23:00

(IFDC) Most fertilizers used worldwide today were developed from 1950 to 1970 by the Tennessee Valley Authority based in Muscle Shoals.

A $41 million investment in fertilizer research returned $57 billion to US agriculture. Public funding for fertilizer development has dropped dramatically since the TVA fertilizer program closed in the 1990s.

Research is needed to develop a new generation of energy-efficient fertilizers to help alleviate the food crisis.

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