The agricultural industries have primarily three uses for dyes, The crop protection industry, the fertilizer industry and the seed dressing industry. The purpose of the dye used here is for coloring of agricultural chemicals or in the identification process of agricultural chemicals. The basic selection criteria depend upon the following:

• Color strength of the particular dye
• Dye color
• Color stability
• Compatibility of the dye with the particular agent

Fertilizer Industry

Fertilizers are often added with coloring to differentiate between qualities and to avoid any type of errors in application. Fertilizers are also colored for purely marketing purposes. Usually water based pigment is often used in the diluted form and is sprayed onto the fertilizer or sometimes incorporated into a melt.

Crop Protection Industry

Use of colorants in crop protection agents of the type insecticide and fungicides helps to clearly demarcate treated areas from the untreated ones. In addition, the dye stuffs also help in promoting safety in the handling operations.

Coloring of pesticides or herbicides is generally done by mixing chromatic pigments with dry powder formulations of the agents. Milori blue is a very popular pigment, that goes well with viticulture fungicides, other categories of pigments include lithol rubine, heliogen blue etc., Dyes used in the crop protection industry are Solvent dyes, Acid dyes or Basic dyes the better alternative.

Seed Dressing Industry

The main objective of coloring the seed dressings is used for marking and a warning reference. To avoid any sort of confusion and making sure that it does not end up being used as fodder. The most important colorant used is red.

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