Sustainable SMART fertilizers in agriculture systems: A review on fundamentals to in-field applications

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 904, P. 166729 - 166729

Published: Sept. 9, 2023

Language: Английский

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Controlled-release fertiliser: Recent developments and perspectives

Industrial Crops and Products, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 219, P. 119160 - 119160

Published: July 15, 2024

Traditional fertilisers, though widely used, pose challenges such as low nutrient utilization efficiency and adverse environmental impacts. Controlled release fertiliser (CRF) plays an important role in sustainable agriculture. Its implementation is considered a transformative approach, promoting environmentally conscious methods for enhancing crop productivity. CRF not only prevents loss but also ensures customized pattern that aligns with plant physiological biochemical processes. Despite these advantages, has yet to find extensive adoption the commercial agricultural practices. This primarily due its cost-intensive nature, relatively modest efficiency, predominant use of petroleum-derived synthetic polymers coatings. review aims provide concise summary significant advancements, emerging materials technologies, potential future applications sustainability. Particularly, technologies plasmas, flow chemistry, metal−organic frameworks, nanotechnologies, microfluidic sensing have been explored development. While highlighting advantages CRFs, we address disadvantages discuss recommendations successful transition from traditional fertilisers maximizing their advantages.

Language: Английский

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Harmful Algal Blooms in Eutrophic Marine Environments: Causes, Monitoring, and Treatment

Water, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(17), P. 2525 - 2525

Published: Sept. 5, 2024

Marine eutrophication, primarily driven by nutrient over input from agricultural runoff, wastewater discharge, and atmospheric deposition, leads to harmful algal blooms (HABs) that pose a severe threat marine ecosystems. This review explores the causes, monitoring methods, control strategies for eutrophication in environments. Monitoring techniques include remote sensing, automated situ sensors, modeling, forecasting, metagenomics. Remote sensing provides large-scale temporal spatial data, while sensors offer real-time, high-resolution monitoring. Modeling forecasting use historical data environmental variables predict blooms, metagenomics insights into microbial community dynamics. Control treatments encompass physical, chemical, biological treatments, as well advanced technologies like nanotechnology, electrocoagulation, ultrasonic treatment. Physical such aeration mixing, are effective but costly energy-intensive. Chemical including phosphorus precipitation, quickly reduce levels may have ecological side effects. Biological biomanipulation bioaugmentation, sustainable require careful management of interactions. Advanced innovative solutions with varying costs sustainability profiles. Comparing these methods highlights trade-offs between efficacy, cost, impact, emphasizing need integrated approaches tailored specific conditions. underscores importance combining mitigate adverse effects on

Language: Английский

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Recent study on biodegradable hydrogels for agriculture application: a review

Journal of environmental chemical engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 115679 - 115679

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Enhanced efficiency fertilizers: Overview of production methods, materials used, nutrients release mechanisms, benefits and considerations

Environmental Pollution and Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 1, P. 32 - 48

Published: July 27, 2024

The application of fertilizers is necessary for continuous replenishment plants nutrients, sustaining the productivity soils. Inorganic are very simple, chemically defined, water soluble, and easily absorbed immediate reproducible responses in plants. In excess needs however, they do not only scorch plants, but also lost to atmosphere as greenhouse gases. Prolonged usage leads reduced soil quality, acidification (accompanied by dissolution carbonate gases emission), contamination underground water. Increasing nutrients use efficiency ameliorates these problems ensuring a better synchronization availability with uptake. Without increasing frequency fertilization associated labor cost (encountered split-fertilization), enhanced (EEFs) gradually make available over long period time, that met after single seasonal fertilization, without compromising integrity soil. EEFs benefits environment retarding availability; some materials used formulation impact beneficial qualities (e.g., improved structure, erosion) production EEFs, such coated fertilizers, depending on nature coat, completely environmentally friendly; effects certain due variability between fertilizer batches conditions. These challenges development different potential solutions, their formulation, addition advantages discussed. information contained herein expected arouse more research sustainable assist farmers selecting best kind condition, crops production, while health.

Language: Английский

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Filling of Chitosan Film with Wax/Halloysite Microparticles for Absorption of Hydrocarbon Vapors

Advanced Sustainable Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(7)

Published: Feb. 24, 2024

Abstract The effect of the preparation protocol chitosan (CHI) based films filled with wax microparticles stabilized by halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) in Pickering emulsions (PE) is investigated. obtained results show that addition acetic acid (before or after wax/HNT microspheres) affects properties composite as well colloidal stability PE. behavior CHI/HNT/wax PE optical microscopy and sedimentation tests are studied. On other hand, corresponding (prepared solvent casting method) characterized through several techniques, including Scanning Electron Microscopy, UV–vis spectrometer, water permeability, contact angle measurements. Dynamic Mechanical Analysis allows this to estimate on tensile performances CHI‐based films. As a general consideration, filling CHI matrix improves physicochemical Finally, efficacy adsorbents n‐dodecane vapors explored. Due presence hydrophobic domains (wax embedded CHI), possess higher adsorption efficiencies compared pristine CHI. Accordingly, it can be stated combination promising obtain biocompatible useful for remediation purposes.

Language: Английский

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Small molecule, big impacts: Nano-nutrients for sustainable agriculture and food security

Journal of Plant Physiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 301, P. 154305 - 154305

Published: July 3, 2024

Language: Английский

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State of Climate Action 2023

Published: Nov. 1, 2023

The State of Climate Action 2023 provides the world’s most comprehensive roadmap how to close gap in climate action across sectors limit global warming 1.5°C. It finds that recent progress toward 1.5°C-aligned targets isn’t happening at pace and scale necessary highlights where must urgently accelerate this decade reduce greenhouse gas emissions, up carbon removal increase finance.

Language: Английский

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Preparation and characterization of starch carbamate modified natural sodium alginate composite hydrogel blend formulation and its application for slow-release fertilizer

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 278, P. 134713 - 134713

Published: Aug. 16, 2024

Language: Английский

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Review of current trends in chitosan based controlled and slow-release fertilizer: From green chemistry to circular economy

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 278, P. 134982 - 134982

Published: Aug. 30, 2024

Language: Английский

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