What Types of Agricultural Inputs Are There? A Complete Guide
Agricultural inputs mainly include agricultural transport machinery, production and processing machinery, pesticides, seeds, chemical fertilizers, agricultural films, and so on. They are the material resources and material conditions used in the agricultural production process to change and influence the objects of labor.
1. Agricultural Inputs
1. Pesticides: including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, plant growth regulators, soil conditioners, and so on.
2. Chemical fertilizers: including nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, potassium fertilizers, compound fertilizers, blended fertilizers (BB fertilizers), slow-release fertilizers, controlled-release fertilizers, base fertilizers, organic-inorganic blended fertilizers, microbial fertilizers, foliar fertilizers, water-flush fertilizers, micro-fertilizers (trace element fertilizers), and so on.
3. Agricultural machinery: large transport tractors, wheat harvesters, corn harvesters, straw crushers, and so on.
Good agricultural inputs directly increase farmers' income. For example, superior seeds and seedlings; branded fertilizers, agricultural films, and so on. Poor-quality, unsalable agricultural products are mostly related to inferior agricultural inputs. Many farmers have realized that only by producing high-quality agricultural products can they find a market, and they have strengthened their awareness of brand-name agricultural inputs. Therefore, high-quality, high-and-stable-yield rice seeds, wheat seeds, tree saplings, fruit seedlings, and pig, chicken, duck, and fish fry are very popular.
2. How Do You Judge Whether a Pesticide Is Good or Bad?
1. Pesticide name: the product name on the label must state the pesticide's common name, including the Chinese common name and the English common name, as well as the percentage content and formulation type. Imported pesticides must have a trade name.
2. Check the “three certificates”: the “three certificates” are the product standard certificate number, the production license (approval) certificate number, and the pesticide registration certificate number. A pesticide without the three certificates, or with incomplete three certificates, is an unqualified pesticide.
3. Pesticide active ingredient, content, and weight: if the pesticide's ingredients, content, and weight do not match the label, it can be determined to be a fake or inferior pesticide.
4. Pesticide label color band: a green band indicates a herbicide, red indicates an insecticide, black indicates a fungicide, blue indicates a rodenticide, and yellow indicates a plant growth regulator. If what you bought does not match, it is a fake pesticide.
5. Instructions for use: the same type of product made by different manufacturers has different concentrations, so its method of use will be different; otherwise, it is a fake pesticide.
6. Toxicity label and precautions: if a pesticide lacks a toxicity label, the main symptoms of poisoning and first-aid measures, safety warnings, the pre-harvest interval, and special storage requirements, it can be determined to be a fake pesticide.
3. What Should You Do If You Are Sold Inferior Agricultural Inputs?
1. Collect receipts, the time of purchase, the place of purchase, the sales channel, and so on.
2. If you discover the agricultural inputs are inferior before use, ask the seller for a return.
3. If you discover the agricultural inputs are inferior after use, make a claim against the seller; if the claim is not settled, provide evidence to the Administration for Industry and Commerce and report it; inferior agricultural inputs harm others and oneself and directly affect farmers' income, so the person concerned should actively defend their rights.
The range of agricultural inputs is very large and broad. If you want to deal in agricultural input-related products, it is still very comprehensive, and agricultural inputs are currently being continuously phased out and upgraded, so you should be careful when purchasing.