There are many manufacturers all working tirelessly to produce higher quality instruments. which instruments do other soil and nutrition scientists prefer, and why should we try to get that particular unit.

The information needed is the efficiency, ease of working process, cost of purchase (a rough idea is enough), re-occurring cost.

the instrument of particular concern are:

1. ICP-AES/OES.

2. Auto-distillation unit.

3. X-Ray Diffractometer.

4. Infrared Thermometer.

5. Cone Penetrometer.

6. End-End Shaker/ Orbital Shaker

7. Scanning Electron Microscope

8. Transmission Electron Microscope.

9. FTIR.