International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Soils in many places throughout the globe have acquired multi-micronutrient deficiencies as a consequence of the widespread adoption of high-yielding cultivars, intensive farming techniques, micronutrient-free fertilizer application, non-addition of organic manures, and imbalanced plant nutrition. These factors have all contributed to the depletion of soil micronutrients.Micronutrients are believed to be trace elements since plants often only take in extremely minute amounts of them, despite the fact that they are widely accessible in the soil.Even though plants only need relatively little amounts of micronutrients like B, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn, these elements nonetheless play an essential role in the expansion and maturation of plant life.Micronutrients are essential for nutrient intake management, plant metabolism,chlorophyll synthesis, fruit and seed production, reproductive development,and carbohydrate production. Their impact on plant product quality makes their importance clear. This is possible due to the fact that each critical element in plants is responsible for a distinct group of functions. Nutrients availability can be affected by a wide variety of factors like soil moisture, microbial activity in soil, clay content, organic matter, aeration or permeability of soil, redox potential and soil reactivity. Other soil properties that might have an effect on plant availability of micronutrients include aeration and redox potential.In the near future, micronutrient insufficiency will cause agricultural crops to degrade significantly. Science, breeding, and ingenuity are studying this topic. This article explains micronutrients' amazing importance in plant sciences and briefly outlines how agricultural crop plants acquire micronutrients.

Keywords: Agriculture, Micronutrients, Deficiency, Toxicity, Soil organic matter, Food security