While the total amount of pesticides sold in Switzerland remained virtually unchanged over the past decade, the sale of insecticides is outpacing that of herbicides. Between 2008 and 2016, sales of herbicides and insecticides for the Swiss agriculture industry amounted to about 2,200 tonnes per year, according to figures published by the Federal Office for the Environment in a press release on Tuesday. The market leader for plant protection products was sulphur, followed by paraffin oil, glyphosate and folpet. Whilst the total sale of pesticide products remained about the same, there was a noticeable drop in sales for the controversial weed killer glyphosate, which brought down total herbicide sales by 27%. + Swiss export products banned as toxic at home + Swiss to vote on pesticide ban One of the reasons for this decline could be that farmers increasingly focus on mechanical weed control, the environmental authorities wrote. In contrast, the sale of insecticides ...
