It is a new technology with amazing promise: the ability to diagnose animal diseases with Star Trek-like hand held devices; herbicides that kill weed seeds in soil without harming other organisms; food packaging that preserves meat or vegetables for months.
These are a few of the possible applications of nanotechnology, a young science based on manipulation of atoms and molecules.
It promises to change our world, including agriculture.
Western Producer reporter Noel Busse produced this report on the opportunities and risks in nanotechnology.
