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Fertilizers are long being utilized in agricultural sector for crop maintenance but the problem with the conventional fertilizers is their persistence in soil for longer period of time causing barrenness of soil. As a result, plants are deprived of essential nutrients. Nano fertilizers provide best possible solution to overcome this problem as they are released on demand, site specific, efficient and easily soluble. In recent years bio nanofertilizers have gained much interest over the conventional chemical fertilizers as these are environment friendly and cost effective. Increased demand of food with outburst of global population can be dealt with the nanofertilizers in agricultural system. It is an efficient way to produce early germination of seed which in turn can help rapid and early crop production in short period of time. The application of these fertilizers at optimum concentration boosts the crop yield though the overdose can cause a decline or reduction in crop production because of their mineral toxicity. For various metabolic reactions nanofertilizers offers great surface area that increases photosynthesis rate, improves the crop biomass and also help the crop to combat environment stress.

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Butt, B.Z., Naseer, I. (2020). Nanofertilizers. In: Javad, S. (eds) Nanoagronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41275-3_8

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