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Agrochemical, the Glossary

Index Agrochemical

An agrochemical or agrichemical, a contraction of agricultural chemical, is a chemical product used in industrial agriculture.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 47 relations: Acidifier, Agricultural chemistry, Algaecide, Arsenic, BASF, Biocide, Body louse, Bovine somatotropin, Canada, Cattle, Chemical accident, Chemical substance, Crop yield, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Ecocide, Ecosystem health, Eutrophication, Fertilizer, Fumigation, Fungicide, Green Revolution, Herbicide, Hormone, Index of pesticide articles, Industrial agriculture, Insecticide, Liming (soil), Mercury (element), Molluscicide, Monsanto, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nematicide, Nutrient pollution, Penetrant (biochemical), Pesticide, Plant hormone, Public health, Rodenticide, Soil conditioner, Speciality chemicals, Statistica, Sulfur compounds, Sumer, Syngenta, Toxicity, United States.

  2. Agricultural chemicals
  3. Industrial agriculture
  4. Organic farming

Acidifier

Acidifiers are inorganic chemicals that, put into a human (or other mammalian) body, either produce or become acid.

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Agricultural chemistry

Agricultural chemistry is the chemistry, especially organic chemistry and biochemistry, as they relate to agriculture.

See Agrochemical and Agricultural chemistry

Algaecide

Algaecide or algicide is a biocide used for killing and preventing the growth of algae, often defined in a loose sense that, beyond the biological definition, also includes cyanobacteria ("blue-green algae").

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Arsenic

Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and the atomic number 33.

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BASF

BASF SE, an initialism of its original name, is a European multinational company and the largest chemical producer in the world.

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Biocide

A biocide is defined in the European legislation as a chemical substance or microorganism intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism.

See Agrochemical and Biocide

Body louse

The body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus, also known as Pediculus humanus corporis) or the cootie is a hematophagic ectoparasite louse that infests humans.

See Agrochemical and Body louse

Bovine somatotropin

Category:Livestock Category:Dairy industry Bovine somatotropin or bovine somatotrophin (abbreviated bST and BST), or bovine growth hormone (BGH), is a peptide hormone produced by cows' pituitary glands.

See Agrochemical and Bovine somatotropin

Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

See Agrochemical and Canada

Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Chemical accident

A chemical accident is the unintentional release of one or more hazardous chemicals, which could harm human health and the environment. Agrochemical and chemical accident are Environmental chemistry.

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Chemical substance

A chemical substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.

See Agrochemical and Chemical substance

Crop yield

In agriculture, the yield is a measurement of the amount of a crop grown, or product such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.

See Agrochemical and Crop yield

Dow AgroSciences

Dow AgroSciences LLC was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company specializing in not only agricultural chemicals such as pesticides, but also seeds and biotechnology solutions.

See Agrochemical and Dow AgroSciences

DuPont

DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.

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Ecocide

Ecocide (from Greek oikos "home" and Latin cadere "to kill") is the destruction of the environment by humans.

See Agrochemical and Ecocide

Ecosystem health

Ecosystem health is a metaphor used to describe the condition of an ecosystem.

See Agrochemical and Ecosystem health

Eutrophication

Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water. Agrochemical and Eutrophication are Environmental chemistry.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.

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Fumigation

Fumigation is a method of pest control or the removal of harmful microorganisms by completely filling an area with gaseous pesticides, or fumigants, to suffocate or poison the pests within.

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Fungicide

Fungicides are pesticides used to kill parasitic fungi or their spores.

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Green Revolution

The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds.

See Agrochemical and Herbicide

Hormone

A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs or tissues by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.

See Agrochemical and Hormone

Index of pesticide articles

This is an index of articles relating to pesticides.

See Agrochemical and Index of pesticide articles

Industrial agriculture

Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.

See Agrochemical and Industrial agriculture

Insecticide

Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects.

See Agrochemical and Insecticide

Liming (soil)

Liming is the application of calcium- (Ca) and magnesium (Mg)-rich materials in various forms, including marl, chalk, limestone, burnt lime or hydrated lime to soil.

See Agrochemical and Liming (soil)

Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

See Agrochemical and Mercury (element)

Molluscicide

Molluscicides – also known as snail baits, snail pellets, or slug pellets – are pesticides against molluscs, which are usually used in agriculture or gardening, in order to control gastropod pests specifically slugs and snails which damage crops or other valued plants by feeding on them.

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Monsanto

The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

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National Agricultural Statistics Service

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the statistical branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System.

See Agrochemical and National Agricultural Statistics Service

Nematicide

A nematicide is a type of chemical pesticide used to kill plant-parasitic nematodes.

See Agrochemical and Nematicide

Nutrient pollution

Nutrient pollution, a form of water pollution, refers to contamination by excessive inputs of nutrients.

See Agrochemical and Nutrient pollution

Penetrant (biochemical)

A biochemical penetrant is a chemical that increases the ability of a poison to apply its toxic effect to a living organism. Agrochemical and penetrant (biochemical) are agricultural chemicals.

See Agrochemical and Penetrant (biochemical)

Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.

See Agrochemical and Pesticide

Plant hormone

Plant hormones (or phytohormones) are signal molecules, produced within plants, that occur in extremely low concentrations.

See Agrochemical and Plant hormone

Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

See Agrochemical and Public health

Rodenticide

Rodenticides are chemicals made and sold for the purpose of killing rodents.

See Agrochemical and Rodenticide

Soil conditioner

A soil conditioner is a product which is added to soil to improve the soil’s physical qualities, usually its fertility (ability to provide nutrition for plants) and sometimes its mechanics. Agrochemical and soil conditioner are organic farming.

See Agrochemical and Soil conditioner

Speciality chemicals

Specialty chemicals (also called specialties or effect chemicals) are particular chemical products which provide a wide variety of effects on which many other industry sectors rely.

See Agrochemical and Speciality chemicals

Statistica

Statistica is an advanced analytics software package originally developed by StatSoft and currently maintained by TIBCO Software Inc.

See Agrochemical and Statistica

Sulfur compounds

Sulfur compounds are chemical compounds formed the element sulfur (S).

See Agrochemical and Sulfur compounds

Sumer

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

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Syngenta

Syngenta is a global agricultural technology company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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See also

Agricultural chemicals

Industrial agriculture

Organic farming

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrochemical

Also known as Agrichemical, Agrichemicals, Agricultural Chemicals, Agricultural chemical, Agro-Chemical, Agro-chemicals, Agrochemical pollution, Agrochemicals.