Nanotech-Agri has engineered Organic Nano Fertilizers to the advantage of agricultural applications.

The world’s food demand is rapidly growing due to a rapid increase in the global population, which is expected to rise to 9.6 billion by 2050.
It is estimated that the annual grain production should increase by 70% to meet the food demand of the world’s population. Over the past few decades, extensive use of agrochemicals has enhanced agricultural productivity, but also compromised human and soil health, disrupting food supplies due to the reduced agricultural yield.
 
At present, fertilizer contributes to improving 50% of total agriculture production, but increasing the dose of fertilizers does not always guarantee an increased crop production and yield. These agricultural practices demand excessive use of nutrients such as N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Mo, and B to enhance soil fertility and productivity, but might lead to soil contamination. Despite the increased use of fertilizers, the rate of nutrient removal from the soil is much higher, resulting in a net-negative soil nutrient balance of about 10 million tons, and widespread economic loss to farmers.

Nutrient deficiency is a major contemporary problem. Nutrients contained in some fertilizers are not always readily available to plants due to their macro size; thus, crops use as little as half of what is applied. Plant roots must mine for nutrients “food” in the soil to enable themselves to grow.

Furthermore, most macronutrients are insoluble in soil, and the unused fractions run off  “leaching”, contributing to the soil and water pollution.
Overuse of chemical fertilizers has short-term gains in terms of an increase in crop yield or production but poses long-term detrimental effects on the ecosystem. The world is facing immense challenges in terms of food security, due to the combined impacts of the ever-increasing population and the adversity of climate change.
 
In an attempt to counteract these factors, Nanotech-Agri developed Organic Nano-fertilizers, to increase food productivity to help meet the growing food demand.

The use of nanocarriers in agricultural practices for sustainable farming contributes to achieving up to 75% nutrient delivery for a prolonged period to maintain nutrient availability in soil for plants in adverse soil conditions.

Engineered nanoparticles, with a 40nm – 70nm scale, can be employed as carriers of fertilizers due to their enhanced ion-exchange properties and adsorption capabilities, which make them an excellent candidate to be used in agronomy. Therefore, plants do not need to “mine” as excessively for their food in the soil within the first stages of growth, but already have some nutrients available with the delivery of nano carriers filled with all the required nutrients which is bioavailable delivered through foliar spray.

Nanotech-Agri’s Organic Nano Fertilizers can make a difference to the agricultural market by saving farmers on input costs, increasing crop production without disrupting soil health, but increasing soil microbial productivity.