Israel uses more pesticides than any OECD country

Israeli farmers use the largest amount of active chemical pesticides per agricultural dunam out of all OECD countries, a Central Bureau of Statistics survey has revealed.

The report, titled “Survey of Pesticides in Agriculture 2008- 2010,” sent questionnaires to 90 companies for the purpose of identifying sales and imports of chemical agricultural pesticides approved by the Agricultural Ministry for the years 2008 through 2010, a CBS statement said. Designed to help identify trends and processes of marketing pesticides, the survey looks at both the data of Israel and other comparable countries.