PLANT SCIENCE INDUSTRY IN CANADA
PESTICIDE SALES DATA: BY THE NUMBERS
CropLife Canada members reported pesticide sales of $1,911,507,000 in 2009, a slight increase over 2008 sales of $1,813,770,000.
PESTICIDE SALES: AT A GLANCE
- Herbicides continue to dominate pesticide sales in Canada accounting for 76% of all pesticide sales in 2009.
- Fungicides accounted for 13% of all pesticide sales in 2009.
- Insecticides accounted for 3% of total pesticide sales in 2009.
- While specialty products accounted for 8% of all pesticide sales in 2009.
FARMERS EMBRACING BIOTECH:
The one billionth hectare of biotech crops was planted in 2010, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA). In 2010 there were 15.4 million farmers in 29 countries who planted biotech crops. There was an unprecedented 87-fold increase in the planting of biotech crops between 1996 and 2010. Biotech crops are the fastest-adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture
Canadian farmers planted 8.8 million hectares of biotech crops in 2010, up from 8.2 million hectares in 2009.
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