[Reporter's Notebook] Chemical Fertilizer? It's Mineral Fertilizer

Chemical fertilizers are artificially produced through chemical processing. The National Institute of the Korean Language's Standard Korean Dictionary defines chemical fertilizers as including nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, potassium fertilizers, and compound fertilizers. A similar term is "artificial fertilizer." What, then, is the definition of chemical fertilizers in domestic agricultural laws? The current Fertilizer Management Act does not include the term "chemical fertilizers." The 1981 Fertilizer Management Act was the first to use this term. At that time, the law stated that "'Three-element chemical fertilizers' refer to inorganic fertilizers containing one or more components of nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium, produced through chemical processes." However, this expression was deleted from the Fertilizer Management Act implemented in 1983. Instead, the term "ordinary fertilizer" was used, with classifications based on official standards such as nitrogen ...