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Nanotechnology in Agriculture

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Agricultural productivity is maintained by the heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, this has been demonstrated to have serious environmental impact with life-threatening effect to humans. This demands the need to upgrade the agricultural practices with safe and most effective technologies which focuses on improved agricultural production with minimal ill effect to the environment and humans. Here comes the importance of application of nanotechnology in agriculture and its promises to accelerate the sustainable agriculture. These involve the development of nano-formulations of agrochemicals for enhanced crop yield and protection and exploring the possibilities of nanoparticles as effective alternative to the agrochemicals. Hence the current book chapter describes the application of various nanoparticles in agricultural field for better yield and productivity.

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    S. Saranya & A. Remakanthan

  2. School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

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Saranya, S., Aswani, R., Remakanthan, A., Radhakrishnan, E.K. (2019). Nanotechnology in Agriculture. In: Panpatte, D., Jhala, Y. (eds) Nanotechnology for Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9370-0_1

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