Insecticide use up nearly 40% on P.E.I.
Insecticide use up nearly 40% on P.E.I.
Volume of pesticides declines
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | 10:24 AM AT
CBC News
A return to keeping records of pesticide use on P.E.I. shows insecticide use has increased but the amount of pesticides used on the Island has declined, roughly matching a decline in hectares under cultivation.
Provincial records show more than 718,410 kilograms of pesticides were sold on P.E.I. in 2006. That's 11.8 per cent less than was purchased in 2002, while hectares under cultivation dropped 10.8 per cent.
The province stopped recording that information in 2003 when it thought the federal government was going to start doing the same work, but that hasn't happened so the province started collected the data again last year.
The kinds of pesticide being applied have changed dramatically, the report said.
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