Abstract
Graphical Abstract Abstract Polymers are a class of soft materials with numerous and versatile mechanical and chemical properties that can be tuned specific to their application. Agriculture is an expanding area due to the requirement for indispensable food to meet the demands of a growing global population. Consequently, development of technology to improve the quality of the soil and agriculture manages is still under development. Intelligent agricultural supplies (controlled or slow release agrochemicals and superabsorbents) and biosorbents contribute to an expanding niche using technology from polymers. This review elucidates the state-of-the-art and will discuss some important aspects of using polymers in intelligent fertilizers, as well as superabsorbent, biosorbent and biodegradation processes in agriculture that are environmentally, technically, socially, and economically sustainable.
Highlights
The main growing, harvesting, and processing practices in agriculture were markedly achieved through the exploitation of natural resources, such as water and soil, combined with the excessive use of agrochemicals[1,2]
Polymers are a class of versatile materials that have been used in many agricultural applications due to the ability to engineer application-specific polymers[3,4,5]
As a positive contribution to this expanding field, the aim of this review is to provide an overview of superabsorbent polymer (SAP), focusing in particular on their agricultural applications
Summary
The main growing, harvesting, and processing practices in agriculture were markedly achieved through the exploitation of natural resources, such as water and soil, combined with the excessive use of agrochemicals[1,2]. Polymers are a class of versatile materials that have been used in many agricultural applications due to the ability to engineer application-specific polymers[3,4,5]. There is a clear increase in the quantity of studies that investigate general polymer applications in agriculture, the more specific and novel themes of controlled-release, superabsorbent and biosorbent are publication deficient. This overview demonstrates the importance and optimism for the study on polymers and their application in agriculture
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