Farm-Waste-Derived Nanoring Coating to Enhance Urea Use in Rice Crops ACSSustainable urea agricutlure rice ricecrops nanoagriculture agrotech
By Hussain AhmedSep 29 2022Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc. Urea, a white crystalline solid containing 46% nitrogen, is extensively used in agriculture as an animal feed ingredient and fertilizer. However, urea has a very poor utilization efficiency since it is lost to the environment via processes such as leakage and volatilization.
Rice plants are one of the most significant food crops, and they play a crucial part in ensuring global food security. Nitrogen fertilizers, especially urea, are critical in increasing the output and quality of rice plants. As a result, a strong yet environmentally friendly coating is needed to limit these inefficiencies and transform demand into excess, utilizing current manufacturing capacity.
Although such coatings have shown to be fairly beneficial in a variety of agricultural applications, their development is both expensive and time-consuming, and innovative, cost-effective coatings for urea-release control are desperately needed. A binder is required to arrange the silica compound into a coating for regulated nutrient release. Egg white protein can generate crack-free, mechanically robust, and strong coatings through a straightforward assembly process.
The cellulose in jute grafted silica nanoring works as a clasp for the egg white to retain silica and build a hydrophobic buffer around the urea. Another significant benefit of egg white is its capacity to swiftly disintegrate into an irrevocable hydrophobic structure.
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