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Nanotechnology in farming Nanotechnology application Nanotechnology offers solutions to various problems in agriculture such as reducing the use of fertilizer, pesticide and water, improve plant and animal breeding besides creating and making available nano based bioindustrial products. Nanotechnology can be used for the controlled environment agriculture such as "smart" pesticides delivery, control of crops, complete plant health monitoring, extreme condition agriculture for space, cold, hot areas and other related fields such as animal food and health, control of microbial and chemical contamination. Nanotechnology can offer new tools for the molecular treatment of diseases, rapid disease detection, enhancing the ability of plants to absorb nutrients etc. Nanotechnology will help the agricultural industry combat viruses and other crop pathogens. Nano-barcodes and nano-processing could also help monitor the quality of agricultural produce. Water management Nanotec...

Green Medicine by nano technologyy Green Medicine Green or sustainable medicine is one that recognizes the link between the environment, medicine and human health and seeks to provide better health care while protecting the limited environmental and medical resources. Researchers at the Nano-Science Center and the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen have characterized and tested how molecules react, combine together and form larger molecules, which can be used in the development of new medicine. The researchers claim that they are able to work with reactions that take place in very small volumes, namely 10-19 liters which is a billion times smaller than anyone has managed to work with before. Even more intriguing is the ability to do so in parallel for millions of samples on a single chip. This method will be of interest to industry because it makes it possible to investigate drugs faster, cheaper and greener. Green production Self-asse...

Excessive use of fertilizers adding to global warming: IIM-A study A study of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A ) warns that Nitrous Oxide (N2O) emissions from excessive use of fertilizers by farmers in the country is significantly adding to global warming. The study suggests that better planning could increase the national food grain production without further increasing the emission. The study, published in international journal 'Climatic Change' in May 2011, said that average annual emission of N2O of a district in the country has increased from 305 tons in 1990 to 450 tons in 2005. One of the prime reasons for this alarming rise is increase in the use of fertilizers. The gradual transition from traditional to modern agriculture over the past two decades has spiked the use of fertilizers. "Use of fertilizers in agricultural farms beyond a limit does not increase the amount of yield. Instead, it increases the amount of N2O emissions, ...

A team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) here has developed a new technology to convert environmentally-hazardous plastic into petroleum products. After nearly a decade-long experiments, the team of six scientists of IIP led by its Director Madhukar Omkarnath Garg has managed to achieve a breakthrough in developing a "combination of catalysts" which can convert the plastic either into gasoline or diesel or aromatics along with LPG as a common byproduct. "We believe it is a big achievement of our scientists to produce petroleum products from waste plastics," IIP spokesman S K Sharma said here today. GAIL, which has sponsored the entire project, is also exploring the economic viability of the project in order to produce the petroleum products on mass-scale, scientists said. "The unique features of the technology is that liquid fuel, gasoline and diesel, meets Euro III fuel specifications and different products can be obtained from t...

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