We have developed a new generation of fertilizer based on nanopowders of metals (Cu, Co, ...) which allows us to significantly optimize the technology of a number of agrochemical measures, or rather, reduce them to a single presowing treatment of seeds with a preparation containing the necessary trace elements in nanoform.
Now in agriculture, trace elements are introduced into the soil in the form of soluble salts. The plant receives the necessary substances if the soil contains a solution. Further, it is washed out by rain and watering, and then a new feeding is required. However, chemicals enter the groundwater, disturbing the balance of the ecosystem. This circumstance is overcome by the new generation fertilizers: they allow targeted introduction of the necessary trace elements into the structure of the plant without harming the soil.
The economic benefit from the use of such fertilizer causes a number of reasons. First, its consumption is on the order of one gram of dry matter per ton of seed to be treated. Secondly, the amount of agronomic measures reduced due to a single seed treatment will reduce the labor costs and the operation of agricultural equipment.
See our work in my profile.
It is very new concept. But I don't any research work in this direction. Please share the any research progress about nano fertilizer.
We have developed a new generation of fertilizer based on nanopowders of metals (Cu, Co, ...) which allows us to significantly optimize the technology of a number of agrochemical measures, or rather, reduce them to a single presowing treatment of seeds with a preparation containing the necessary trace elements in nanoform.
Now in agriculture, trace elements are introduced into the soil in the form of soluble salts. The plant receives the necessary substances if the soil contains a solution. Further, it is washed out by rain and watering, and then a new feeding is required. However, chemicals enter the groundwater, disturbing the balance of the ecosystem. This circumstance is overcome by the new generation fertilizers: they allow targeted introduction of the necessary trace elements into the structure of the plant without harming the soil.
The economic benefit from the use of such fertilizer causes a number of reasons. First, its consumption is on the order of one gram of dry matter per ton of seed to be treated. Secondly, the amount of agronomic measures reduced due to a single seed treatment will reduce the labor costs and the operation of agricultural equipment.
See our work in my profile.
@ Yuri So your nanoparticle system is in active use in some part of the world? How many tonnes per year are applied to crops? You tell us that these are introduced as solutions - where are the nanoparticles then?
@Alan F Rawle. If it interests you, then read our work and you will not have questions. You will see what we have done and how much our contribution to this problem is.
@ Yuri Please can you recommend an appropriate paper. You have many publications and I'm struggling to find one that is specific to the poster's question. Thank you.
@ Mukul Ray The point I'm trying to reach is that commercial fertilizers are extremely inexpensive and nanotechnology products are invariably very expensive. I'm trying to reconcile the two. There has to be an enormous technological benefit to go for nano here. Research is irrelevant without a market willing to take the product. If the yield is increased by a factor of 100 then there would be a technological and cost benefit obviously. I need to be convinced that there is a market for nano in this 'cheap' area and I don't think a ludicrous and unbelievable 10-fold increase in yield would 'cut the mustard'.... What is done in universities does not always produce an economic benefit.
@ Yuri An interesting (and very defensive) conclusion to reach especially when I asked for any specific item of your research covering this topic and it seems you cannot provide a reference other than 'See our work in my profile'.....
@Alan. You are interested in fertilizers and I am highly correlated electronic systems.
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