Agriculture

Gypsum is used in agriculture as a micronutrient enrichment of animal feed and soil fertilizers.

If the diet of chickens lacks calcium and sulfur, agricultural experts recommend adding these micronutrients to the feed.
The use of gypsum in sugar production helps reduce the loss of sucrose.

Gypsum is used for cultivation and increasing the fertility of alkali and saline soils, which are characterized by a high content of sodium in the absorbed complex and the subsequent alkaline reaction of the medium. To get rid of excess alkalinity, which is unfavorable for plants, agricultural experts recommend treating the soil with gypsum to displace sodium with calcium ions.

As a fertilizer, gypsum is mostly applied under leguminous grasses to supply them with calcium and sulfur, as well as to increase the availability of soil potassium to plants.

As a result, the quality of the soil improves (becomes looser) and the yield increases (shoots grow faster).