The Fertilizer Encyclopedia

The Fertilizer Encyclopedia, according to its publicity, is “the definitive, up‐to‐date reference on fertilizers” and a quick search revealed – to my surprise ‐ that there really was no other title to compete in this area.

Certainly it comes with an impressive pedigree: no less a name than the late Dr Norman Borlaug, Father of the Green Revolution and Nobel Laureate for his work on increasing the world's food supply, wrote the Prologue and defines it as a “unique and scholarly contribution”. The Foreword was contributed by someone with equally impressive credentials, Dr M.S. Swaminathan, First World Food Prize...