Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University, Baku, Azerbaijan:

N. I. Babaev, Professor, Doctor of Geologo-Mineralogical Sciences, nibabayev@yandex.ru

To satisfy the needs needs of the national agricultural industry, the Republic of Azerbaijan possesses essential resources of fertilizer stock in the form of minerals and mining-and-processing waste. It is found that the most economically efficient and ecologically safe material is boron-rich breccias of mud volcanos in Azerbaijan. Apart from freshly erupted mud-volcano breccias, the valued micro-fertilizers can be magnesian boric compounds—slurry product after extraction of boron from breccias. The article gives information on usability of boric–magnesian fertilizers in cropping.

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