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Nanoagriculture: Advantages and Drawbacks

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In present days, nanotechniques have achieved great attentions because of its various roles in many fields such as energy storage devices, clinical drugs, catalytic process, and materials. Several reports also revealed that nanotechnology would have a major and prolonged effect on the agriculture sector. Agriculture is an ecologically costly technique. An increasing number of peoples and unfavorable climatic situations increase the requirement of using insecticides and chemical fertilizers. However, they tend to have high adverse effects as they release toxic molecules in high quantity in the environment. The main solution of this issue is the formation of nanomaterials-based fertilizers and pesticides. Owing to small size, nanomaterials discharge desirable substances. Thus, these can also help in decreasing the wastes. By using nanotechniques, agriculture is developing fast. There are several roles of nanotechnology in agriculture like rise in production rate by using nanofertilizers and nanopesticides, enhancement of the plant growth by employing nanomaterials (like carbon nanotubes, titanium dioxide, and silicon dioxide), increase in quality of the soil by using hydrogels and nanofertilizers, and give better survey by employing wireless nanosensor tools. Moreover, these techniques help to control the discharge of toxic substances from agrochemicals (like fertilizers and pesticides) and deliver many needed macromolecules on desired sites to improve the disease resistance of plants. However, many issues have been raised about the efficient adverse effects of nanoparticles on the environment as well as on biological systems, like the generation of toxic free-radicals that lead to lipid peroxidation and damage of DNA by employing these more potential techniques. This has led to an increase in the number of unemployed in the area of farming due to the reduced requirement of human workers with these better operative techniques. Under these scenarios, there is need to predict the adverse effect of these nanoparticles in near future.

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Yadav, S., Sawarni, N., Dahiya, T., Rana, J.S., Sharma, M., Batra, B. (2023). Nanoagriculture: Advantages and Drawbacks. In: Fernandez-Luqueno, F., Patra, J.K. (eds) Agricultural and Environmental Nanotechnology. Interdisciplinary Biotechnological Advances. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5454-2_1

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