Urease and Nitrification Inhibitors are efficiency enhancers contributing to reduce nitrogen losses from fertilisers.

Efficiency Enhancers are a key element of agronomic sustainability: they enable an improved efficiency of fertilising products by ensuring better climate protection and increasing yield potential.

Key Facts

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The overall potential impact of inhibitors on emissions from N fertilisers sums up to 32 M tons of CO2 equivalent à equivalent to removing 8.9 M cars from the streets.

-70%

NH3 Urease inhibitors reduce NH3 emissions by 70%.

-38%

Nitrification inhibitors (NI) reduce N2O emissions by 38% as well as nitrates leaching by 18%.

Why use efficiency enhancers?

Nitrogen fertilisers – just as other fertilisers – are used to boost yields, but only about 50% of the applied N is taken up by the crop while the rest is released into the atmosphere, in deeper soil layer, the ground water and/or fixed at soil particles. These losses pose a challenge for human health, climate and biodiversity. Nitrogen stabilisers such as urease and nitrification inhibitor technologies are one of the solutions to address this challenge.

Reduce CO2eq emissions

Reduce Ammonia Emissions

Reduce Nitrous Oxide Emissions

Reduce Inputs

Increase Efficiency

Optimise precise agriculture