About Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP):
- It is one of the most widely used fertilizers globally, providing essential nutrients —nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)—for plant growth.
- It is the second most commonly used fertilizer in India after urea.
- It is high in phosphorus (P) that stimulates root establishment and development-without which plants cannot grow to their normal size or will take too long to mature.
- It’s highly soluble and thus dissolves quickly in soil to release plant-available phosphate and ammonium.
- DAP has additional uses, including:
- As a fire retardant. For example, a mixture of DAP and other ingredients can be spread in advance of a fire to prevent a forest from burning.
- In various industrial processes, such as metal finishing.
- An addition to wine to sustain yeast fermentation.
- An addition to milk to produce cheese cultures.
- It proves as a flux for soldering tin, copper, brass, and zinc.
