• Anuradha
• Jagvir Singh

Agriculture is an area where activities directly or indirectly play a major role in climate change. Climate change and agricultural activities are interlinked processes that occur both globally. More than 10,000 insects, 600 weeds and 1,500 fungi are commonly seen, with some named insects adversely affecting human life. The quality of food produced, its quantity and stored yield affects the life of human beings by destroying it. At the same time, they make animals and crops the biggest cause of various diseases. Climate change can directly and indirectly affect the leaching of pesticides to ground and surface waters. The direct effect converts the natural reactions of the soil-ecosystem into climate variables (mainly temperature, precipitation, and potential evaporation). Indirect effects refer to any changes in pesticide use, fate, and transport that arise from human activities in response to climate change. Agricultural pesticides adversely affect both the environment and human health. These effects are sensitive to climate change because insect pressures and optimal pesticide application rates vary with weather and climatic conditions. Agricultural activities account for about 30% of global emissions leading to climate change, including pesticide use. This amounts to 12% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is widely used extensively in agriculture because it emits N2O (nitrous oxide) gas on a large scale, a powerful greenhouse gas that is one of the most important contributors to climate change. The manufacture and application of pesticides represent a smaller proportion of fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions in farming than fertilizer use. Through this paper an attempt has been made to understand in detail how pesticides play a role in climate change.

Climate Change, Agrochemicals, Environment, Soil fertility, Agricultural activities

"Impact of Agrochemicals on Climate Change : A Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 11, page no.1394-1403, November-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1711217.pdf

"Impact of Agrochemicals on Climate Change : A Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 11, page no. pp1394-1403, November-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1711217.pdf