Abstract
In the age of the rising human population and unprecedented climate changes, maintaining sustainability while providing food security is a huge challenge. Nanotechnology applied to agricultural practices may well play a vital role in providing sustainable solutions to combat worldwide problem of food production, safety, and scarcity of resources in a sustainable manner. It has vast potential of increasing the proficiency and productivity of agriculture and making it more ingenious by using the nanoparticles (NPs) for precise and sustained delivery of nutrients and agro-medicines. Nanomaterials (NMs) play a crucial role in environmental remediation practices. The amalgamation of nanotechnology and biotechnology has created intelligent nanosensors to sense and diagnose the soil deficiencies and environmental conditions. The applications of nanotechnology in agriculture might be in the capacities of nanoremediation, nanobiotechnology, nanosensing, nano-based delivery systems, or nano-based food systems, though nanotechnology has the potential to overcome the problems in all the domains of agri-activities: from ploughing to forage, from field preparations to seed sowing, from germination of the seed to the manipulation of germplasm, or from nutrient delivery to packaging and processing of the agricultural products. Regardless of the abundant prospective gains of nanotechnology, most of its agronomic applications are not yet commercialized. The apprehensions associated with the toxic effects on human and environmental health during the course of production, transportation, and handling of nanomaterial and the inconsistency in the global monitoring and regulating policies are the limiting factors in the implementation and marketing of nanotechnology-based solutions in agriculture. This chapter is an effort to explore the existing applications, future perspectives, and challenges of integrating nanotechnology in the agricultural practices.
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