The chemical industry invests much in the production of compounds to protect agricultural crops. Many crops would suffer significant losses if they were not present. Some of these compounds, the insecticides, are also very helpful in preventing human and animal diseases. Over the previous six decades, these compounds' environmental and toxicological qualities have vastly improved.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://zaszambia.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/crop-protection-chemicals-industry-recovering-substantially-post-covid/