Agricultural chemicals and the environment This product is not available separately it is only sold as part of a set. There are 750 products in the set and these are all sold as one entity Enormous increases in agricultural productivity can properly be associated with the use of chemicals. This statement applies equally to crop production through the use of fertilizers herbicides and pesticides as to livestock production and the associated use of drugs steroids and other growth accelerators. There is however a dark side to this picture and it is important to balance the benefits which flow from the use of agricultural chemicals against their environmental impacts which sometimes are seriously disadvantageous. Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment explores a variety of issues which currently are subject to wide ranging debate and are of concern not only to the scientific establishment and to students but also to farmers landowners managers legislators and to the general public