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P. KARTHIK REDDY*, N.C. MAMATHA, PRASHANTH NAIK, V. SRILATHA AND PAVAN KUMAR P.
Department of Horticulture, S. V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati – 517 502, Andhra Pradesh
Nanotechnology has great potential as it can enhance the quality of life through its applications in various fields like agriculture and the food system. In a world where the human population is growing rapidly, and agriculture industry is facing challenges such as stagnation in crop yields, low nutrient use efficiency, declining soil organic matter, multi-nutrient deficiencies, climate change, shrinking arable land and water availability, post harvest losses and shortage of labour and thereby food security is a very important problem in near future. Now, increasing agricultural production efficiency and decreasing post harvest wastage using novel scientific researches such as nanotechnology in products could be counted as the best solution to this problem. Nanotechnology using of particular characteristics of nanoparticles can be a very useful technology in all science and industry branches. So now a lot of usage of nanotechnology in agricultural science has been founded. In relation with crop production, crop protection, storage, post harvest shelf life and marketing, nanotechnology can help us in some grounds like balanced crop nutrition, effective pest, disease and weed control, water management, product quality maintenance, product tracking and labeling, precision agriculture and agricultural waste management.