Role of Chemistry in Agriculture
Dr V. K. Chhibber Dean Chemistry, BFIT Introduction The basic need of human being is food. It is the agriculture only which fulfils this need for the entire population of the world. Plants are called producers as they synthesize their own food using CO 2 from air and water from soil utilizing sunlight as source of energy by a process known as photosynthesis. The rest of the food chain consists of consumers only. The practice of producing crops and livestock from the natural resources of the earth is called Agriculture. Modern agriculture includes agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, dairying, soil chemistry, etc. Chemistry deals with compounds, both organic and inorganic, and agriculture deals with the production of organic products using both organic and inorganic inputs Thus Chemistry forms an integral part of agriculture from molecular to organ level. It plays a role from the basics of photosynthesis to the utilization of agricultural produce. The advancements in...
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