Between 2011 and 2020, the sale of pesticides in the European Union remained relatively stable, with the total volume sold annually fluctuating by around 6% at the level of 350,000 tonnes, the EU’s statistical office (Eurostat) said on Monday 2 May, drawing conclusions from statistics it had published at the end of April on sales in 2020.
These statistics refer to available data from 16 EU Member States, which accounted for 67% of total EU pesticide sales in 2020. Two years ago, just under...