INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Abstract
The main force behind Ethiopia's economic growth and long-term food security is agriculture. It generates around 45% of the GDP, 90% of the revenues from foreign exchange, and 85% of all employment. Soil fertility depletion is the fundamental biophysical root cause for declining per capital food production in Sub-Saharan African countries in general and in Ethiopia in particular. The deficiency of micronutrients, particularly in pastoral communities, might be severe due to poor diets mitigated by poor healthcare access, drought, and poverty. Therefore, soil fertility evaluation is one area that needs immediate attention since the reduction in the productivity of several crops is due to ever-decreasing soil fertility on one hand and an imbalanced application of plant nutrients on the other. However, there is very little information available in the country about soil nutrients availability, or the levels of nutrients that are needed to produce economically optimal yields of the crops. We need to pay more attention to fertilizer-use efficiency of the limited amounts that farmers can buy, instead of basing fertilizer recommendations on the face value of agronomic responses, which often suggests large requirements for inorganic fertilizers. Therefore, future research should focus on assessing the availability of these and other micronutrients by collecting large number of soil and plant samples and conducting field trials in the area.
Keywords:
Micronutrients, Deficient, Food security, Knowledge gap
Cite Article:
"REVIEW ON ROLE OF MICRO NUTRIENTS, CURRENT STATUS AND KNOWLEDGE GAPS IN ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURE FOR ENSURING FOOD SECURITY", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.b735-b744, September-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2309184.pdf
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2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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