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All for a good harvest: addressing micronutrient deficiencies

An analyses of the micronutrient market and an assessment of the socioeconomic impact of micronutrient deficiencies and their impact on food security and human health. Public interest in soil health is increasing throughout the world as decline in soil factor productivity, biological degradation, and ever-widening multi-nutrient deficiencies impacting crop quality in addition to crop productivity. The sustenance and wellbeing of humankind are inevitably linked to the stocks, cycling and manipulation of essential nutrients in the bio-geosphere. The capacity to produce adequate and quality plant biomass depends greatly upon the adequacy of mineral nutrients in the soil.