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Nanotechnology provides solutions to address distinct challenges across various agricultural systems, ranging from traditional tillage and agroforestry to organic and precision farming. Practical applications include nanofertilisers, nanopesticides, nanosensors, nanobiotechnology, and nanoremediation. Specific suggested interventions involve enhancing soil quality, protecting crops against biotic stress, remediating polluted soil and water, and managing agricultural waste. These methods link to wider priorities such as green energy, the circular bioeconomy, and sustainable development. However, excessive application of nanomaterials creates environmental risks, including nanopollution and nanotoxicity across agroecosystem compartments. While nanofarming introduces valuable opportunities for modern agriculture, it also poses potential hazards, and further research is required to evaluate the precise balance between its benefits and associated challenges.
Modern agriculture must meet global food and resource demands while minimising environmental harm. Nanotechnology can enhance soil quality, improve crop protection, and remediate polluted agricultural environments. However, understanding toxicity and pollution risks is essential to ensure that these emerging technologies support long-term sustainable development and ecosystem health.
The work highlights commercial opportunities for agricultural input producers and agritech developers through nanofertilisers, nanopesticides, nanosensors, and waste management tools. While these concepts could serve commercial farmers and environmental remediation managers, the abstract describes a broad review rather than tested products, indicating that practical market readiness remains constrained until toxicity and environmental safety challenges are resolved through further research.
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The agricultural sector is a vital source of human well-being that provides the necessities of daily life. A variety of farming systems are utilized in agriculture, such as a wide range of tillage options, no-till, agroforestry, precision farming, organic farming, cover cropping, crop rotations, etc. Each of these farming systems has unique challenges, and nanotechnology has successfully improved on many of them. Agricultural applications of nanotechnology include nanofertilizers, nanopesticides, nanosensors, nanobiotechnology, and nanoremediation. This study focuses on the application of nano-farming technologies to different farming systems. Suggested practices include nano improvement of soil quality, crop nano-protection under biotic stress, nanoremediation of polluted soil and water environments, nanomanagement of agro-wastes, nano-agrochemicals, nano-precision farming, and nanobiotechnology for modern farming. This review also addresses expected problems that may occur due to over application of nanomaterials to farming systems, such as nanopollution and nanotoxicity of agroecosystem compartments. Several dimensions are emphasized in this study, such as green energy, sustainable development, the circular bioeconomy, land biodegradation, pollution, and the one health approach, as essential for the global goals of sustainable development. Nanofarming presents both benefits and obstacles to human life. The exact balance between these benefits and challenges needs more study.
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DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13061600
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