| With global population growing constantly and food | | | | or from substances created in laboratories. Each |
| production having to meet the nutritional needs | | | | product has some specific application and with |
| that is affordable and available all the year round, | | | | tremendous competitive markets, the |
| it has become important to use fertilizers in order | | | | manufactures are investigating and testing their |
| to retain the fertility of the soil and increase its | | | | products before manufacturing on a commercial |
| productivity. Fertilizers are physical compounds | | | | scale. These crop protection products control the |
| that help in plants growth and are usually applied | | | | pests and various plant diseases that threaten our |
| either through soil or through leaves. Natural | | | | food supply and eliminate any nutrient caused |
| occurring nutrients are not always available in huge | | | | constraints to crop productivity. |
| quantities and to recover the undernourished soil | | | | Nutrients that are naturally present in the soil and |
| agrochemicals are used. Used for quantity and | | | | atmosphere are not always in the form that |
| quality production, agrochemicals to great extents | | | | plants can use. Organic wastes and crop residues |
| help in controlling insects, diseases, fungi, weeds | | | | added to soil improves the physical content but to |
| and other undesirable pests. In fact the industry is | | | | achieve growth to their maximum potential, |
| presently coming up with more ecological, user | | | | fertilizers are applied. Adequate nitrogen fertilizer is |
| friendly and safe products to be used by the | | | | essential for healthy plants and food crops. |
| farmers. Advertisements should contain usage | | | | Ammonium nitrate and urea are fertilizer materials |
| information, visual presentation and composition | | | | used dry or mixed with water to create |
| structure in particular for safety. | | | | concentrated liquid nitrogen fertilizers. Using foliar |
| In most of the developing countries, agrochemical | | | | fertilizers are also effective means of reducing |
| products are used to help the farmers increase | | | | the nutrient imbalance. They are concentrated |
| the agricultural productivity thereby contributing to | | | | solutions combining nitrogen, phosphorus and |
| food security and alleviating poverty. | | | | potassium to the desired ratio. Foliar fertilizers are |
| Agrochemicals include wide variety of insecticides, | | | | water soluble and are immediately available to |
| pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, hormones and | | | | plants. They act as great supplements to boost |
| other growing agents. Agrochemicals are | | | | the sweetness, flavor and the yield of the crop. |
| produced either from naturally occurring materials | | | | |