Over the past decade, owing to key properties such as high surface area, tailorable pore size and excellent accessibility to active sites, porous materials have shown significant potential to improve performance in various technological applications. In the agricultural sector, productivity depends on a large extent on agrochemicals, however conventional systems lack application efficiency, leading to environmental pollution, and related problems. Porous materials were found to be the best suitable carrier to overcome the above disadvantages in the agrochemicals as have the inherent controlled diffusion property. This class of material includes mesoporous silica, metal organic framework, porous carbon, porous polymers, nano-clay, zeolite, biochar, apatite, and calcium carbonate. Each of these materials were explored for the fertilizer, pesticide, and sensing applications. A comprehensive review on developments in agriculture with these porous materials are missing in the literature. To address this, we present in this study a detailed review on the material design, surface area, release or diffusion kinetics, crop/pest/disease testing, and device fabrication with porous materials. The porous materials were found to improve the efficiency of the agrochemicals, which hope to reduce the load of agrochemicals; on the other hand, the sensitivity of the agricultural sensors was improved with the use of porous material. Further, the agro application with the porous material can be improved with the advanced porous structures and few areas, where the application of the porous material is not realized yet is highlighted at the end. Here, the recommendations for future research have been discussed with the reference from the related area to better understand the underlying science and to develop better agrochemical delivery and sensing methods using porous materials.

在过去的十年中，由于诸如高表面积、可定制的孔径和极好的活性位点可及性等关键特性，多孔材料在各种技术应用中显示出提高性能的巨大潜力。在农业领域，生产力在很大程度上取决于农用化学品，而传统系统缺乏应用效率，导致环境污染和相关问题。发现多孔材料是克服农用化学品中上述缺点的最佳合适载体，因为它具有固有的受控扩散特性。这类材料包括介孔二氧化硅、金属有机骨架、多孔碳、多孔聚合物、纳米粘土、沸石、生物炭、磷灰石和碳酸钙。这些材料中的每一种都被用于肥料、农药、和传感应用。文献中缺少对这些多孔材料农业发展的全面回顾。为了解决这个问题，我们在本研究中详细回顾了材料设计、表面积、释放或扩散动力学、作物/害虫/疾病测试以及多孔材料的设备制造。发现多孔材料提高了农药的效率，有望减少农药的负荷；另一方面，使用多孔材料提高了农业传感器的灵敏度。此外，通过先进的多孔结构和少数尚未实现多孔材料应用的领域，可以改善多孔材料的农业应用。这里，