Designation (also agricultural chemistry) is a research and development branch of chemistry. However, it is also a large-scale industrial production sector that is dominated by huge multinational corporations such as BASF, Monsanto, Bayer, CropScience, DuPont, Syngenta and Makhteshim Agan. The world's food supply with a growing world population, decreasing arable land and increased demand for biofuels is only possible with agrochemical products such as fertilisers and pesticides.
Agrochemistry deals with livestock health, pest control, crop protection, fertilisation, pest reduction and chemical processes in agricultural and forestry soils to improve fertility. Various groups of chemicals are used as active ingredients. The main products are synthetically produced mineral fertilisers (artificial fertilisers) and synthetic pesticides such as fungicides (vs. fungi), herbicides (vs. weeds), insecticides (vs. insects) and molluscicides (vs. molluscs).
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