The US used some 1 kg (2.2 pounds) per hectare of arable land compared with: 4.7 kg in China, 1.3 kg in the UK, 0.1 kg in Cameroon, 5.9 kg in Japan and 2.5 kg in Italy.
For the global market of crop protection products, market analysts forecast revenues of over 52 billion US$ in 2019 [REF].