Skyrocketing prices for chemical fertilizers have sent officials looking to other valuable, if unappetizing, resources that are readily available in Japan to help grow food. While prices are ...

In Japan, a target has been set to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers by 30% by 2050. With this in mind, a research group led by Ryosuke Endo, a lecturer, and graduate student Satoru Sakuma at ...

The recovery is part of Tokyo's effort to transform a large portion of the sewage sludge generated in one of the largest cities in the world into vegetable fertilizer. The aim is reducing Japan ...

In this study, plant-based plastic was degraded with ammonia solution and successfully converted into fertilizer that promotes plant growth. Experiments proved that urea *1 and sugar-derived compounds ...

To speed up the creation of crops that can better deal with nutrient poor soils without fertilizers, some scientists at The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in Japan are looking at wild plant strain ...