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.