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Enhancing Agriculture Through Chemistry Education

This educational guide delves into the basics of agricultural chemistry, covering herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, and more. Learn how chemistry aids in producing high-yield crops and resistant plants, benefiting both the agricultural and chemical industries. Explore the diverse fields within agricultural chemistry, ideal for applicants with multidisciplinary backgrounds. Discover employment opportunities in government agencies, academia, and chemical companies. Uncover valuable resources from chemistry.org, university departments, and Wikipedia on agricultural science.

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Enhancing Agriculture Through Chemistry Education

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  1. Agricultural Chemistry

  2. Basics • Everything we eat ,grow and produce • Herbicides pesticides, fungicides, insecticides • Fertilizers, feed supplements • Help produce higher yielding crops, disease resistant plants • Help agricultural industry, chemical industry produce more for less

  3. EDUCATION • -Broad range of fields, well rounded • applicants with multidisciplinary backgrounds needed Ph.D. Not required for support positions • genetics, physiology, microbiology, entomology… • Any/every field can be utilized • internships or summer jobs

  4. Outlook of Employment/Employers • Not clear, still many opportunities: • Government,-FDA,EPA,USDA • Academia, –outreach programs • Chemical companies

  5. Information 1: chemistry.org http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=vc2%5C3wk%5Cwk3_agr.html 2: The department of agricultural chemistry: http://www.ruh.ac.lk/Uni/agri/chemistry.html 3:Wikipedia. Com agricultural science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_science

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