USEPA: 美國農藥用量逐年減少，劇毒有機磷農藥用量大大降低！

Pesticide News Story: EPA Releases Report Containing Latest Estimates of Pesticide Use in the United States

For Release: February 17, 2011

EPA's report, Pesticides Industry Sales and Usage: 2006 and 2007 Market Estimates, is now available at http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/pestsales/. This report contains the latest estimates of agricultural and nonagricultural pesticide use in the United States. It illustrates graphically historical trends and levels of use over the last 20 years. Also included are data on imports, exports, and pesticide producers and users. The report contains statistics on pesticide sales and usage based on available information taken from Agency records of registrations, USDA surveys of pesticide use, and other public and proprietary sources. Highlights include:

• In the United States, pesticide sales were approximately $12.5 billion at the user level, which accounted for 32% of the nearly $40 billion world market in 2007.Pesticide use in the United States was 1.1 billion pounds in 2007, or 22% of the world estimate of 5.2 billion pounds of pesticide use.
• Total pounds of U.S. pesticide use decreased by approximately 8% from 1.2 to 1.1 billion pounds from 2000 to 2007.
• Use of conventional pesticides decreased about 3% from 2002 to 2007 and 11% from 1997 to 2007.
• Approximately 857 million pounds of conventional pesticide active ingredient were applied in 2007.
• Organophosphate insecticide use decreased about 44% from 2002 to 2007, 63% from 2000 to 2007, and 55% from 1997 to 2007.
• About 33 million pounds of organophosphate insecticides were applied in 2007.
• Eighty percent of all U.S. pesticide use was in agriculture.
• Herbicides remained the most widely used type of pesticide in the agricultural market sector.
• Among the top 10 pesticides used in terms of pounds applied in the agricultural market were the herbicides glyphosate, atrazine, metolachlor-s, acetochlor, 2,4-D, and pendimethalin, and the fumigants metam sodium, dichloropropene, methyl bromide, and chloropicrin.
• Herbicides were also the most widely used type of pesticide in the home and garden and industrial, commercial, and governmental market sectors, and the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate were the most widely used active ingredients.

The last report on pesticides industry sales and usage was published in 2001. Previous reports are also available at http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/pestsales/.

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• 一般有機磷農藥的毒性是草甘膦（低毒）的幾十到幾百倍 -26484915- ♂ (26363 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 12:29:19

• 即然可以減少，當初為何濫用？即然可以減少，為何不能禁絕？ -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 12:58:00

• 自己種過菜以後才知道，不上肥，不用除草劑和殺蟲劑，基本是種不出像樣的高產量的東西的，最多自給自足。 -betadine- ♀ (65 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 12:54:02

• 如此自給自足，不是很好的事情麽？ -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:06:46

• 並不是每個人都願意自己種菜的, 也不是每個人都有條件自己種菜的. -花椒- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:16:14

• 那就爭取自己種，或改變1下自己，試著當當農民。或者勸農民們寧可少種些，但自然品種些，或者自己少吃些，但自然品種些，也是可以的。 -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:26:23

• 現在的發展潮流是城市化，農民上樓。沒有土地怎麽種？ -26484915- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:29:08

• 那就打針吃藥。打1針，1個月不用吃飯，裏邊含有糖脂蛋微維纖V-ABCDEFG。。。XYZ啥滴。 -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 15:05:11

• 你試試當農民就知道了，我是不再種菜了，要種得好，上肥，除草劑，殺蟲劑一樣不可缺，用量自己倒是能控製。 -betadine- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:32:54

• 我1直當農民自己喜歡種點，夠自己吃。我享受此樂。 -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:42:10

• 如果你要靠此生活，那就是另外一回事了。 -betadine- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:45:19

• 人類生命程序很節能環保——因此，活著不應該很艱難，快樂也可尋。如今世界無大戰，我看很多病都是貪婪與貪吃，吃得忒飽了撐的。 -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:48:57

• 是。 -TBz- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 14:39:32

• 一個社會，要是每個人都要自己種菜，那就是農業社會了，而且是小農社會。 -TBz- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:30:28

• 這就如同躲避化學毒劑，自己在屋裏栽棵蔥將就吃罷。 -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 22:20:01

• 天調雨順，拚命勞作才能自給自足。遇到天災人禍，後果可想而知。再說哪有那麽多時間拔草，除蟲？ -betadine- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:29:12

• 家庭人口不多，少種點菜很容易滿足食用。。。控製1點攝取量，對健康可能多些幫助。過食-病態，再減肥，雙重浪費加傷身，何必涅？ -大江川- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 17:14:55

• 聽過一個報告，當年的消滅饑餓行動，對土地的掠奪，導致印度的地下水從幾米到現在的幾百米才能取到，土地越來越依賴化肥和農藥，導致 -薛成- ♂ (227 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 13:46:09

• 印度農民自殺率與消滅饑餓行動無關。年年種莊稼不上化肥，土地的養分哪裏來？ -26484915- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 14:00:51

• 化肥和肥料不是一回事。農場主承擔不了費用的上升，破產自殺那是調查報告說的。 -薛成- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 14:16:33

• 現在不是主張休耕，輪作。就是要土地恢複自然生機。 -薛成- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/02/2014 postreply 14:18:31