Crop micronutrients are vital for the growth of plants and various other metabolic activities. Crop Micronutrients play a significant role in improving taste, color, quality, and absorbing fertilizers, using water efficiently, and helping in disease resistance. Not just that, they also help in the growth and development of large and strong roots, promote better
plant immunity and facilitate in building complete proteins & compounds.
“Micronutrients are essential for plant growth and for ensuring balanced crop nutrition. Deficiency of any one of the micronutrients in the soil can limit growth,” says Subhash Chandra, Managing Director, Kingdao Agrochem.
“The global micronutrients market is moderately consolidated with no major players accounting for a very high market share. In terms of geography, Asia Pacific is a major regional market and is characterized by the growing agriculture industry, especially in India and China,” he adds.
The Indian agriculture sector is not only one of the most economical sectors for the nation’s GDP but the country is the largest in terms of generating revenue in agriculture in the Asia Pacific region. The farmers are keeping forth the demand for higher-yielding crops that is further fuelling the Indian agricultural micronutrients markets growth in the next 5 years.
Owing to the surge in the use of soil testing as well as plant analyses, micronutrient deficiencies have been verified in many soils. However, a few of the factors limiting the incidental additions of micronutrients include:
• high-yield crop demands actually remove micronutrients from the soil
• the surge in the use of high-analysis NPK fertilizers which comprise lower quantities of micronutrient contaminants
• advancement in fertilizer technology that decreases the residual addition of micronutrients.
Application of micronutrients with mixed fertilizers
Although one of the methods of application of micronutrients is soil application for crops, the
