Abstract

Nanotechnology monitors a leading agricultural controlling process, especially by its miniature dimension. Additionally, many potential benefits such as enhancement of food quality and safety, reduction of agricultural inputs, enrichment of absorbing nanoscale nutrients from the soil, etc. allow the application of nanotechnology to be resonant encumbrance. Agriculture, food, and natural resources are a part of those challenges like sustainability, susceptibility, human health, and healthy life. The ambition of nanomaterials in agriculture is to reduce the amount of spread chemicals, minimize nutrient losses in fertilization and increased yield through pest and nutrient management. Nanotechnology has the prospective to improve the agriculture and food industry with novel nanotools for the controlling of rapid disease diagnostic, enhancing the capacity of plants to absorb nutrients among others. The significant interests of using nanotechnology in agriculture includes specific applications like nanofertilizers and nanopesticides to trail products and nutrients levels to increase the productivity without decontamination of soils, waters, and protection against several insect pest and microbial diseases. Nanotechnology may act as sensors for monitoring soil quality of agricultural field and thus it maintain the health of agricultural plants. This review covers the current challenges of sustainability, food security and climate change that are exploring by the researchers in the area of nanotechnology in the improvement of agriculture.

Highlights

  • Agriculture is always most important and stable sector because it produces and provides raw materials for food and feed industries

  • It is interesting to propose that the iron (II, III) oxide NPs (Fe3O4 -NPs) have the ability to accumulate in Lepidium sativum and Pisum sativum plants

  • Sustainable agriculture must be taken as an ecosystem method, where abiotic–biotic-living beings live in accord with a coordinated stability of food chains and their related energy balances

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Agriculture is always most important and stable sector because it produces and provides raw materials for food and feed industries. The limit of natural resources (production land, water, soil, etc.) and the growth of population in the world claim the agricultural development to be economically further, viable, environmentally and efficiently. This alteration will be the vital for achieving many factors in the recent year (Johnston and Mellor, 1961; Yunlong and Smit, 1994; Mukhopadhyay, 2014). Agricultural nutrient balances are differed noticeably with economic growth, and especially from this surmise, the development of the soil fertility is very much significant in developing countries (Campbell et al, 2014)

Nanotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture
NANOPARTICLES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
Quantum Dots
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Nano Max NPK Fertilizer
Ecotoxicological Implications of the Nanoparticles
Emulsion Encapsulation
Growth of Cultivated Plants and Its Ecotoxicological Sustainability
NANOTECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD INDUSTRY
Food Process
Food Packaging and Labeling
FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
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