Nutrammon

Ammonium Nitrate

Modern agricultural research has clearly shown that different sources of Nitrogen affect crop growth and yield in different ways.

The criterion for evaluating nitrogen fertilizers is their ability to supply plants with absorbable forms of Nitrogen and to promote the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of production.

Nutrammon® are high-quality nitrogen fertilizers, developed to ensure this to the greatest possible degree. Their granule combines, with absolute purity and in a balanced ratio (50:50), the two plant-absorbable forms of Nitrogen — Ammoniacal NH4 and Nitric NO3.

The rapid absorption of Nitrates covers the crop’s immediate requirements, while the Ammoniacal fraction acts as a “reserve”, ensuring medium-term supply. Nitrogen absorption happens easily and directly, without interference from external factors between plant and fertilizer, unlike Urea and Ammonium Sulphate.

Nitrogen (N)

Nitrogen, together with Water, Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen, is a fundamental nutrient for the existence of life and every living organism in nature. In plants, it participates more than any other nutrient in forming the plant body and in the vital functions of growth and production. As a component of chlorophyll, it is involved in photosynthesis and in the production of carbohydrates, which form the basis of the food chain and the very reason humanity developed agriculture. As a structural component of amino acids, proteins and nucleic acids, it plays a decisive role in energy transformations, in plant reproduction over time, and ultimately in crop growth and yield. Its deficiency leads to reduced soil fertility, stunted growth, premature aging of plants, reduced production and degraded quality. Its excess favors plants that are susceptible to disease and environmental stress, delays flowering, reduces fruit set, delays ripening and damages production. Adequate, rational management of Nitrogen is the single most important factor for crop vigor and productivity in modern agriculture.

Nitrogen sources for plants

Nitrogen is the most abundant atmospheric gas, making up 78% of the atmosphere’s total volume. In the surface soil layer it ranges from 0.05 to 0.4% and is found almost entirely in organic form. Despite crops growing in an environment abundant in Nitrogen, plants — with the exception of legumes — cannot take up and use atmospheric Nitrogen. At the same time, they are also unable to use the soil’s organic Nitrogen unless it is first broken down and converted into absorbable forms. For this reason, Nitrogen deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency observed in crops and the most significant limiting factor for achieving high yields. The rational management of Nitrogen and adequately supplying crops with it has been a core pursuit of agricultural practice over time, has contributed decisively to the evolution of farming systems, and is directly linked to the development of agriculture from antiquity to today.

Absorbability

Plants absorb soil Nitrogen as Nitrate (NO3-N) and as Ammoniacal (NH4-N). Ammoniacal Nitrogen forms stable bonds with the soil and is taken up by plant roots as they grow and come into contact with soil particles. Nitrate Nitrogen moves freely through the soil, reaches the roots, and is taken up by plants via soil water. The presence of both forms of Nitrogen in the soil is decisive for vigorous crop growth, increased yields and production quality.