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What you'll get

  • Online Learning Access
  • Self-Paced Study
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • Certificate Verification Available
  • Lifetime Learning Access
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Exam details

  • Online Examination
  • Duration : 1 Hour
  • MCQ-Based Assessment
  • Passing Marks: 50%
  • No Negative Marking
  • Certificate Issued After Successful Completion
  • Certificate Can Be Verified Online

What This Course Offers

This course helps you understand how fertilizers actually work in the soil–plant system and how to use them effectively, scientifically, and responsibly.

What You Gain

  • Clarity on how nutrients move, react, and become available to crops

  • Ability to judge when a fertilizer will work — and when it won’t

  • Confidence to choose the right source, rate, timing, and placement

  • Understanding of fertilizer behavior in acid, alkaline, and flooded soils

  • Practical insight into modern fertilizers like slow-release and inhibitors

  • Awareness of environmental impact and soil health sustainability

Why This Matters

Most people apply fertilizers.
Here, you learn how to manage fertility — which is what leads to better yield, better soil, and better long-term results.

How You Will Think After This Course

You begin to:

  • Interpret soil conditions instead of guessing

  • Diagnose nutrient deficiencies by logic, not chance

  • Design fertilizer plans scientifically

  • Connect theory with real field conditions

  • Evaluate nutrient efficiency like an agronomist

Core Value This Course Delivers

Before After
Applying fertilizers Managing soil fertility
Following recommendations Creating your own reasoning
Treating NPK as a fix Understanding nutrient behaviour
Short-term output Long-term soil performance

Where This Course Prepares You

  • Field-level nutrient decision-making

  • Research-oriented fertilizer evaluation

  • Sustainable fertilizer planning

  • Precision agriculture mindset

  • Scientific fertilization strategy

The Real Outcome

You don’t just “know fertilizers” —
you understand them: how they are produced, how they behave in soil, how crops respond, and how efficiency changes with method and environment.

Course Content

Total: 74 lectures
  • The Importance of Fertilizers in the World Food Chain
  • Fertilizer Market Characteristics
  • Fertilizer Production
  • Soil Analysis
  • Plant Analysis
  • Design of Fertilizer Experiments
  • Field Plot Technique
  • Cation Exchange Capacity
  • Soil Acidity and Liming, Ag Nutrient Management
  • Understanding Our Soil
  • Soil Acidity from Nitrogen Transformations
  • How Phosphorus Behaves in the Soil
  • Potassium
  • Properties of Sulfur
  • The Importance of Iron for Plants
  • Zinc For Your Crops
  • Effect of Flooding on the Soil
  • Reactions of Plant Nutrients in Flooded Soils
  • Fertilizer Use for Lowland Rice
  • Nitrogen in Nature
  • Nitrogen Fixation and Role of Dinitrogen
  • Marketing of Nitrogen Fertilizers
  • Optimizing Soil for Nitrogen Efficiency
  • Nitrogen Fertilizers
  • Concepts of Slow Release
  • Mode of Release
  • Commercial and Experimental Materials
  • Nitrogen Availability and Plant Response
  • Current and Projected Use of Slow-Release Nitrogen Fertilizers
  • Nitrification Inhibitors
  • Urease Inhibitors
  • Potentials and Research Needed
  • The Starting Point
  • Mining and Beneficiation
  • Phosphate Manufacture
  • Marketing of Phosphorus Fertilizers
  • Use of Phosphorus Fertilizers
  • Soil Factors Affecting Phosphorus Availability
  • Phosphorus Fertilizer Characteristics
  • Potassium Fertilizer Production
  • Marketing Potassium Fertilizers
  • Use of Potassium Fertilizers
  • Sulfur Sources
  • Sulfur Fertilizers
  • Marketing Sulfur Fertilizers
  • Forms of Sulfur in Soils and Their Utilization by Plants
  • Reactions of Sulfur Fertilizers in Soils
  • Predicting and Diagnosing the Need for Sulfur Fertilizers
  • Use of Sulfur Products as Soil Amendments
  • Production Method
  • Marketing
  • Methods and Rates of Application
  • Bulk-Blending Plants
  • Granulation Plants
  • Fluid Mixed Fertilizers
  • Satellite Plants .
  • Nutrient Sources and Quantities
  • Conclusions
  • Need for Improved Techniques
  • Fertilizer Efficiency as Influenced by Application Method
  • Fertilizer Placement with Reduced Tillage
  • Fertilizer Application with Irrigation
  • Combined Fertilizer-Pesticide Applications
  • Foliar Fertilization
  • Future Improvements in Application Techniques
  • Nitrogen
  • Phosphorus
  • Atmospheric Concerns About Nitrogen Fertilizer
  • The Accumulation of Cadmium in Soil when Added as a Contaminant of Phosphate Fertilizers
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Factors Involved in the Soil-Plant-Animal System .
  • Specific Effects of Fertilizers on the Nutritional Quality of Plants
  • General Aspects of Fertilizer Use and Human and Animal Nutrition
  • Summary and Future Needs

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