<divclass="h2">How Much Money Would We Save?</div>
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The main goal of our solution is omitting the use of fertilizers. Therefore, firstly, the amount of money that we would save primarily depends on the operating costs of a farm that goes towards purchasing fertilizer. We made an analysis for this amount for the Netherlands as well as the top 4 agricultural producers of the world, China, USA, Brazil, and India. We made this analysis for the most nitrogen-utilizing crops: sugar beet, maize, wheat, and rapeseed. Since Brazil and India do not intensively produce sugar beet but do produce sugar cane, we also made this calculation for these countries. In this analysis, we made a few assumptions. The first assumption was that the nitrogen-based fertilizer being used was urea-based, which has 46% nitrogen. The second assumption was that the use of NitroBLAST seeds would not increase the operational costs of the farm significantly, as compared to the use of regular seeds. The calculation was then done in the following way using data from <ahref="#analysis"style="color: #185A4F;">[11]</a>. For example, for the cultivation of maize in China, annually 300 kg N/ha of urea-based fertilizer is applied to a cultivation area of 8.59 million hectares. The cost of this fertilizer is 0.37 USD per kg, leading to an annual estimate of 2 billion USD spent in China on urea-based fertilizer for the nitrogen supply required for the cultivation of maize. You can see the analysis done for the other crops and countries in the following plot: <i>insert plot here</i>.
The main goal of our solution is omitting the use of fertilizers. Therefore, firstly, the amount of money that we would save primarily depends on the operating costs of a farm that goes towards purchasing fertilizer. We made an analysis for this amount for the Netherlands as well as the top 4 agricultural producers of the world, China, USA, Brazil, and India. We made this analysis for the most nitrogen-utilizing crops: sugar beet, maize, wheat, and rapeseed. Since Brazil and India do not intensively produce sugar beet but do produce sugar cane, we also made this calculation for these countries. In this analysis, we made a few assumptions. The first assumption was that the nitrogen-based fertilizer being used was urea-based, which has 46% nitrogen. The second assumption was that the use of NitroBLAST seeds would not increase the operational costs of the farm significantly, as compared to the use of regular seeds. The calculation was then done in the following way using data from <ahref="#czapp"style="color: #185A4F;">[11]-[49]</a>. For example, for the cultivation of maize in China, annually 300 kg N/ha of urea-based fertilizer is applied to a cultivation area of 8.59 million hectares. The cost of this fertilizer is 0.37 USD per kg, leading to an annual estimate of 2 billion USD spent in China on urea-based fertilizer for the nitrogen supply required for the cultivation of maize. You can see the analysis done for the other crops and countries in the following plot: <i>insert plot here</i>.
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