Technology Details

Area of Technology:Agro & Food Processing

Title of the Innovation: Super-absorbent Hydrogel

Brief About Innovation

About the Technology : Agriculture 

About the process  : 

The Hydrogels has been extensively reported the world wide as well as in India for diverse applications, including agriculture. There have been efforts to utilize these materials as water economy aid in agriculture.  However, their serious constraints like fragile structure of hydrogels particularly at higher temperatures, high rate of biodegradability, reduced water absorption capacity under practical use situations, purely synthetic origin, etc have restricted in their promotion and use in agriculture. A process has been developed for preparation of new type of hydrogel  which overcomes such limitations.