ABSTRACT
646Nanotechnology is a promising and new field of interdisciplinary research. It opens up a wide opportunity in various fields of human welfare such as pharmaceuticals, medicine, electronics, and agriculture. Agriculture is an essential source of food, feed, and shelter to human sustenance. The increasing global population in near future will be around 10 billion in 2050, making it hard for the agricultural sector to produce more agricultural commodities with limiting natural resources. A large population in developing and developed countries is still facing food insecurity in one or another way. To meet challenges like deforestation, water crisis, global warming, and climate change, there is a need to create droughtand pestresistant crops coupled with high production and yield. Currently, nanotechnology seems to provide assurance in various fields of human needs to revolutionize the areas of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicines, textile, energy, communication, and information technology. Therefore, the application of nanotechnology to all these sectors is fetching attention of scientists and policy makers. Specifically, the application of nanotechnologies to agriculture and food industry carries potential benefits to reduce not only agricultural inputs but also improve food safety and nutrition quality with improved processing. The benefits of nanotechnology are widespread in agriculture to make need-based strategies for the management of inputs like nanoencapsulated seeds, nanofertilizers, nanoinsecticides, nanopesticides, and nanoherbicides by the applications of nanomaterials in sustainable agriculture management.
