  The agriculture sector has many issues such as reductions of agricultural
lands, growing population, health issues arising due to the use of synthetic
fertilizers and pesticides, reduction in soil health due to extreme use of
synthetic chemicals during farming, etc. The quality and quantity of foods
required for living things are affected by many factors like scarcity of
nutrient-rich soils, lack of suitable fertilizers, harmful insects and bugs,
climate change, etc. There is a requirement to supply the proper nutrients to
plants/crops for obtaining a high crop yield. Synthetic chemical fertilizers
provide nutrients (macro and micro) to plants for their growth and development
but the excess use of them is not good for a healthy lifestyle as well as for
the environment. In recent years, non-thermal plasma (NTP) is considered as an
advanced green technology for enhancing productivity in agriculture sectors. In
this report, we provided the details of nutrients and their functions in the
growth and development of plants/crops. How plasma technology can resolve many
future challenges in the agriculture sector is discussed in detail. A few
experiments on seed germination and plant growth (root and shoot length) were
performed in the laboratory to explore the effect of plasma-activated water on
the growth and development of plants. These primary results demonstrate the
great potential of plasma technology in the agriculture sector.
