agrochemical

noun

ag·​ro·​chem·​i·​cal ˌa-grō-ˈke-mi-kəl 

variants or less commonly agrichemical

ˌa-gri-ˈke-mi-kəl 

: an agricultural chemical (such as an herbicide or an insecticide)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

The failed agrochemical turned out to be a public relations disaster for another reason, as well. —Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021

In October 2018, the agrochemical giant said Justice Family Farms hadn’t paid a bill for more than $800,000 of seed. —Big Jim, ProPublica, 31 May 2020

In November, gunmen took three people hostage at one farm and made off with $50,000 worth of agrochemicals. —Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2020

On Thursday, Aurelia Skipwith, who once worked for agrochemical corporation Monsanto, was confirmed as the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. —Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019

Those standards include waste and water management protection and the safe use of agrochemicals. —Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019

The agrochemical giant sells 50 percent of Malawi’s commercial corn seeds, and their sales would plummet if the subsidies were eliminated or redirected to more productive uses. —Timothy A. Wise, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2019

Meanwhile, hundreds of glyphosate lawsuits are still pending, all of them directed at German multinational Bayer, which bought agrochemical giant Monsanto last year. —Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2019

But consider who stands to lose from such a shift: corporate interests that profit from modern agrochemical-intensive farming and factory-farm livestock production. —David R. Montgomery, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2019

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Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above