Pesticide Industry Sales and Usage
These EPA reports on pesticide sales and usage might offer some evidence for persuading granters or government funders or supervisors to invest in our community horticulture public education efforts.
EPA reports on Pesticide Industry Sales and Usage are at this site.
Figure 3.4 in the latest reports notes pesticide usage in the Home & Garden category since 1998 usage has steadily increased from 72 million pounds of a.i. to 102 million pound of a.i. in 2001 while usage in agriculture was 724 million pounds of a.i. in 1998 and down to 675 million pounds of a.i. in 2001.
What is your guess as to why?
And what resources do we need in our CCE community horticulture programs to decrease this rise?
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