Without phosphorus food cannot be produced, since all plants and animals need it to grow. Put simply: if there is no phosphorus, there is no life. As such, phosphorus-based fertilisers—it is the “P” in “NPK” fertiliser—have become critical to the global food system.
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Source: Phys.org