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A plant needs 16 nutrients. Three of them, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, come from air and water…
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A plant needs nutrients. Three of them, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, come from air and water. The rest come from the soil. The soil nutrients are macronutrients and micronutrients, and there are macronutrients. How many nutrients come from the soil, and how many of them are micronutrients?
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A plant needs 16 nutrients: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from air and water, and 13 from the soil (6 macronutrients and 7 micronutrients). Manure adds organic matter. Fertilisers give nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Wells, canals, river lift systems and tanks bring water. The cropping patterns are mixed cropping, inter-cropping and crop rotation.
The worked solution
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Step 1. From the soil. nutrients.
Step 2. Micronutrients. nutrients.
Answer: nutrients come from the soil, and of them are micronutrients.
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