Soil Fertility vs Soil Productivity

• Soil Fertility
• quality that enables a soil to provide the proper
compounds in the proper amounts and in the
proper proportion, for the proper growth of
specified kind of plants when all factors are
favorable for growth.
• Soil productivity
• capability of the soil to produce a specified plant
under a specified system of management
Three Criteria for Essentiality of Nutrients
• A plant cannot complete its life-cycle in the absence
of the element
• The action of the element must be specific, with no
other element being able to completely substitute for
it
• The element must be shown to be directly involved in
the nutrition of the plant. It must be a constituent of a
metabolic pathway or at least be required for the
activity of an essential enzyme.