India to explore indigenous deposits of phosphatic rock, a step towards becoming AatmaNirbhar in fertilizer production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phosphate rock deposits can be sedimentary or igneous and are mined from sedimentary deposits formed by the deposition of phosphate-rich materials in marine environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large sedimentary deposits are located in China, Middle East, Northern Africa, and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the igneous deposits are mined in Brazil, Canada, Finland, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worldwide, more than 85% of the phosphate rock mined is used to manufacture phosphate fertilizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All common fertilizers have an \u201cN-P-K\u201d rating. Phosphorus is the \u201cP\u201d in fertilizers, which is essential for plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India to explore indigenous deposits of phosphatic rock, a step towards becoming AatmaNirbhar in fertilizer production. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Phosphate rock deposits can be sedimentary or igneous and are mined from sedimentary deposits formed by the deposition of phosphate-rich materials in marine environments. Large sedimentary deposits are located in China, Middle East, Northern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":48474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-48473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48475,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions\/48475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48473"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=48473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}