Growing technology for soybeans with nanoherbicides

Abstract

Modern herbicide market in agriculture is about 2 billion tons and about 73 billion dollars industry with sophisticated multi‐impact
problems with food safety and human health, with increasing of weed resistance with every passing year at the topmost. Nanoherbicides under development in the current decade of our century could be a new strategy to address all the issues caused by the conventional non‐nanoherbicides. From the beginning of 21 century group of Georgian scientists with farmers associations have begun development nanoherbicides (experimental name “Nanocooper 076”, which is under registration) in soybean experimental pilot plots and farmer’s fields, which will allow farmers to clear their soybean plantings from weeds without using toxic chemicals, like Glyphosate. As the potential use of nanostructured nanomaterials enables the use of nanoherbicides effectively and rules out the emergence of various weed‐resistant population at an early stage of growing agricultural crops (first weeks after sowing), these very desirable nano technological methods and practices in general agriculture are reviewed by this article.