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The current agricultural practices are facing a major challenge of stagnant crop yield. The quest to increase the agricultural production for fulfilling the food demands of perpetually increasing population has led to the explicit usage of numerous agrochemicals. Although, the introduction of agrochemicals significantly upsurged the agricultural production but the explicit usage of these agrochemicals has significantly deteriorated the health of agroecosystems owing to their recalcitrant nature and longer persistence in the environment. Their entry into the food chain has also affected the health of higher forms of life. Adding more to the concern, the employment of chemical surfactants in developing the agrochemical formulations not only causes a noticeable upsurge in their toxicity but the chemical nature of surfactant also lays a negative impact on the sustainable management of the environment. The persistence of …