Publisher's Synopsis
Every year, fungus, weeds, insects, plant diseases, and rodents cause billions of dollars in
agricultural losses across the globe. During storage and usage, they also cause the degradation,
fracturing, and destruction of textiles as well as other textile materials, wood, leatherette,
plastics, acrylics, and other similar products, causing significant economic disruption.
Chemical compounds, particularly organic molecules, have played a major role in this battle. The
utilization of organic compounds of different kinds has yielded spectacular results in the fields of
agriculture and hygiene. The high economic efficiency obtained with the use of insecticides,
herbicides and fungicides in industry and agriculture has favored fast growth of pesticide
science, and technological production and usage of pesticides has risen significantly in most
industrialized nations.
