The magazine MAQ December 2019 January 2020 | Page 184

Managing Food Supply Chain

Nanosensors can also contribute in managing different phases of food supply chain including crop cultivation, harvesting, food processing, transportation, packaging, and distribution. These are used as devices to measure soil parameters to detect pathogens or to predict the intake of nitrogen so as to foster a sustainable farming practice. Besides, these can be developed to monitor and tune the volume of insecticides in the crops.