● `color{violet}"Majority of the nutrients"` that are essential for the `color{violet}"growth and development"` of plants become available to the roots due to `color{violet}"weathering and breakdown"` of rocks.
● These processes enrich the soil with `color{violet}"dissolved ions"` and `color{violet}"inorganic salts"`.
● Since they are `color{violet}"derived from the rock minerals"`, their role in plant nutrition is referred to as `color{Brown}"mineral nutrition"`.
● Soil consists of a `color{violet}"wide variety"` of substances.
● Soil not only supplies `color{violet}"minerals"` but also harbours `color{violet}"nitrogen-fixing bacteria"`, other microbes, holds water,
supplies air to the roots and acts as a matrix that stabilises the plant.
● Since deficiency of `color{violet}"essential minerals"` affect the crop-yield, there is often a need for supplying them through `color{violet}"fertilisers"`.
● Both `color{violet}"macro-nutrients"` (N, P, K, S, etc.) and `color{violet}"micro-nutrients"` (Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, etc.) form components of `color{violet}"fertilisers"` and are applied as per need.
● `color{violet}"Majority of the nutrients"` that are essential for the `color{violet}"growth and development"` of plants become available to the roots due to `color{violet}"weathering and breakdown"` of rocks.
● These processes enrich the soil with `color{violet}"dissolved ions"` and `color{violet}"inorganic salts"`.
● Since they are `color{violet}"derived from the rock minerals"`, their role in plant nutrition is referred to as `color{Brown}"mineral nutrition"`.
● Soil consists of a `color{violet}"wide variety"` of substances.
● Soil not only supplies `color{violet}"minerals"` but also harbours `color{violet}"nitrogen-fixing bacteria"`, other microbes, holds water,
supplies air to the roots and acts as a matrix that stabilises the plant.
● Since deficiency of `color{violet}"essential minerals"` affect the crop-yield, there is often a need for supplying them through `color{violet}"fertilisers"`.
● Both `color{violet}"macro-nutrients"` (N, P, K, S, etc.) and `color{violet}"micro-nutrients"` (Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, etc.) form components of `color{violet}"fertilisers"` and are applied as per need.