What is the importance of chemistry

What is the importance of chemistry?

1.  Chemistry plays an important role in meeting human needs for food, health care products and other materials
2.  Production of a variety of fertilizers, improved varieties of pesticides and insecticides
3.  Preparation of drugs isolated from plant and animal sources or prepared by synthetic methods.
4.  Design and synthesize new materials having specific magnetic, electric and optical properties.
5. Production of superconducting ceramics, conducting polymers, optical fibres and large scale miniaturization of solid state devices