Pertaining to the various chemicals used in agriculture to fertilize crops, manage weeds and pests, or which are produced from agricultural crops. Examples: fertilizers, herbicides, bio‐fuels such as ethanol.
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Hester, R.E., and Harrison, R.M., eds., 1996. Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 127 pp.
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(2008). Agrichemical. In: Chesworth, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3995-9_18
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