Role of Agro-Chemicals in Agriculture for National Development for Food Security

Abstract

Chemistry has been, and for the foreseeable future will remain, extremely important for crop protection. Control of fungal pathogens, insect pests and weeds is crucial to enhanced food provision. Agrochemicals, as the name suggests, are used in agriculture to facilitate plant growth and protection as well encouraging more people to become farmers. As world population continues to grow, it is timely to assess the current situation, anticipate future challenges and consider how new chemistry may help meet those challenges. In future, agriculture will increasingly be expected to provide not only food and feed, but also crops for conversion into renewable fuels and chemical feed stocks. This will further increase the demand for higher crop yields per unit area, requiring chemicals used in crop production to be even more sophisticated. Chemistry forms an integral part of in agriculture often aims at preserving or increasing the fertility of soil, maintaining or improving the agricultural yield, and improving the quality of the crop. Chemistry deals with compounds, both organic and inorganic, and agriculture deals with the production of organic products using both organic and inorganic inputs. Thus the aim of this study is to point out different chemicals used in today’s farming system. To point out the importance of agro-chemical in modern farming, also, to encourage more people to go into agriculture.