“Nanotechnology”, is a brain child of late Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in Physics in the year
1965. Nanotechnology – the frontier science of materials having unique properties than their
macroscopic or bulk counter parts, has wider applications in material sciences and biology as well.
The ability of nano-materials to work at the molecular level, atom by atom, to create large structures
with fundamentally new molecular organization is the key to its applications. Nanotechnology will
leave no field untouched by its ground breaking scientific innovations. The agriculture and food
industry is no exception. Nanotechnology has provided new solutions to problems in plants, plant
products and post-harvest technology in enhancing the quality of plant products. It has a significant
effect in the food industry - development of new functional materials, product development, and
design of methods and instrumentation for food safety and bio-security [1]. The effects of
nanotechnology, as such on society is going to be immense.