Despite recent (1963) highly vocal attacks on chemical pesticides, the industry's sales are expected to rise sharply in the decade ahead. By '75 pesticides could be a $2 billion market. This is a two-part study-in-depth of this embattled but opportunity-laden sector of chemical manufacture. Significant changes loom for the pesticide industry in the decade ahead. More regulation, more research and a boom in herbicides are the prospects. The second part includes a survey of this chemical market.