Gels, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(4), P. 276 - 276
Published: April 7, 2025
Hydrogels have emerged as a transformative technology in agriculture, offering significant potential to enhance crop resilience, improve water use efficiency, and promote sustainable farming practices. These three-dimensional polymeric networks can absorb retain water, making them particularly valuable regions facing scarcity unpredictable rainfall patterns. This review examines the types, properties, applications of hydrogels highlighting their role improving soil moisture retention, enhancing nutrient delivery by, increasing yield. The discussion extends economic environmental implications hydrogel use, including reduce irrigation costs by minimize erosion. also explores latest innovations technology, such smart biodegradable alternatives, which offer new possibilities for precision agriculture sustainability. Despite promising benefits, challenges higher cost synthetic hydrogels, impact, performance variability across different types remain. Addressing these requires multidisciplinary approach that integrates advancements material science, agronomy, policy. future outlook is optimistic, with ongoing research poised refine expand diverse agricultural systems. By leveraging capabilities achieve increase productivity, ensure food security, move towards more resilient landscape.
Language: Английский