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Facile synthesis of nanomaterials as nanofertilizers: a novel way for sustainable crop production

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Nutrient fertilization plays a major role in improving crop productivity and maintaining soil fertility. In the last few decades, the productivity of current agricultural practices highly depends on the use of chemical fertilizers. Major drawback of traditional fertilizers is their low crop nutrient use efficiency and high loss into water. Nanomaterial in agriculture is a multipurpose tool for increasing growth, development, and yield of plants. Nanotechnology facilitates the amplifying of agriculture production by reducing relevant losses and improving the input efficiency. Nanotechnology has emerged as an attractive field of research and has various agriculture applications, especially the use of nano-agrochemicals to increase nutrient use efficiency and agricultural yield. Nanofertilizers are more effective as compared to chemical fertilizers due to their cost-efficient, eco-friendly, non-toxic, and more stable in nature. Overall, this chapter focuses on synthesis of nanofertilizers through physical, chemical, and biological methods. This chapter will also explore the use of nano-enabled fertilizers to enhance the nutrient use efficiency for sustainable crop production, and global food safety.

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This research was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (No. 2019C02011), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. LY21C130006), and Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production co-sponsored by Province and Ministry (CIC-MCP).

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Basit, F., Asghar, S., Ahmed, T. et al. Facile synthesis of nanomaterials as nanofertilizers: a novel way for sustainable crop production. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 51281–51297 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20950-3

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