0 a chemical that is used in farming to help grow crops or kill insects
1 a chemical that is used in farming to increase crop production or kill insects:
They produce a wide range of agrochemicals including pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and seed treatments.
The pharmaceutical and agrochemical corporations, for their part, look for ways to avoid paths that imply negotiating with the locals.
Results of routing testing of organic food for agrochemical residues.
Beyond this lies a world-wide rise in concentration in the seed industry, coupled with greater integration between agrochemical, seed and life-science firms.
Changes to the natural environment stem from climate change resulting from natural disasters, in-uences of pollution and agrochemical usage upon the production of gases.
Whilst this is inevitable, it does mean that the book provides some reasonably in-depth snapshots but cannot cover the wider areas of agrochemical discovery.
Technological and economic developments have meant that fertiliser and agrochemical usage is at a mere fraction of the levels of twenty years ago.
In a typical example of this, a gene (or genes) are introduced into a plant which confers resistance to a herbicide manufactured by the same agrochemical company.
If not, it would mean their return to the legal status of serfs, with the agrochemical giants as lords and leeches.
