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Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture in India

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Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3

Part of the book series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews ((SARV,volume 23))

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Agriculture is essential for human survival and social sustainibility. Agriculture and society are intertwined. Agriculture is the root to solve current societal issues because ecofriendly agriculture practices can nurture ecosystems where societies rely on the services of ecosystems. Ecological imbalance, pollution, climate changes, food crises, numerous diseases, and malnourishment continue as a major concern for generations all over the world. Sustainable agriculture is the method to implement farming techniques that protect ecosystems, environment and human health, and in the same time produce adequate amount of grains, meat, plants or any life form of agriculture products for social welfare.

Here we review nanotechnology in agriculture, with special emphasis on Indian farming in Sundarbans. We summarize available nanotechnology in various fields of agriculture and food including crop productions, preservation of forest, water conservation, water resource management, waste water treatment, soil conservation, soil resource management, nutraceuticals, drug delivery, breeding of farm animals, aquaculture, fishery development, poultry farming, agrochemical, agricultural diagnostics, reestablishment of agricultural resources from natural disaster, organic agriculture, and food processing. Simplification of land ownership, correction of land maps and infrastructures development are necessary for application of nanotechnology efficiently for sustainable agriculture in India.

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We thank our all family members for their continuous help and inspiration, especially, we are gratefully happy to our parents to educate us both in agricultural works and academic education which actually help us to realize and analyze the day to day problem of Indian farmers. We like to thank teachers, scientists, farmers, scholars, common people and administrations in developed countries and in India where we have/had the chance to explore development in sciences, technologies and agricultures. We are equally thankful to all the farmers with whom we worked in field for farming, land preparation, land measurement, land segmentation and installation of local irrigation systems in India from which we get inspiration to write on this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, India

    Subrata Pramanik

  2. Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 133-791, Republic of Korea

    Subrata Pramanik

  3. Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, 390-8621, Japan

    Gopal Pramanik

  4. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Gopal Pramanik

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Pramanik, S., Pramanik, G. (2016). Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture in India. In: Ranjan, S., Dasgupta, N., Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48009-1_10

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