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Table 13 (1 of 2)

U.S. Annual Volume of Pesticide Usage

By Pesticide Type, 1979-1988 (Millions of pounds of active ingredient)

All Economic Sectors Combined


Pesticide Type	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
Herbicides	610	622	631	620	573	634	611	590	532	557
Insecticides	255	228	218	210	204	197	193	188	152	161
Fungicides	124	122	122	117	115	109	110	109	100	99
Other Conv.	155	149	152	149	148	145	138	138	133	137
Other Chems.	343	321	307	298	287	284	284	278	269	266
Total	1,487	1,442	1,430	1,394	1,327	1,369	1,336	1,303	1,186	1,220

Note: Excludes wood preservatives and biocides.
Source: EPA/OPP/BEAD estimates, 3/97 for 1979-95 (previous estimates obsolete); Table 3 for 1996/1997.

Table 13 (2 of 2)

U.S. Annual Volume of Pesticide Usage

By Pesticide Type, 1989-1997 (Millions of pounds of active ingredient)

All Economic Sectors Combined


Pesticide Type	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Herbicides	567	564	546	554	527	583	556	578	568
Insecticides	154	148	141	143	130	138	137	130	129
Fungicides	98	91	86	81	80	79	77	79	81
Other Conv.	154	173	182	189	192	199	203	222	197
Other Chems.	251	252	226	246	248	244	249	234	256
Total	1,224	1,228	1,181	1,213	1,177	1,243	1,222	1,243	1,231

Note: Excludes wood preservatives and biocides.
Source: EPA/OPP/BEAD estimates, 3/97 for 1979-95 (previous estimates obsolete); Table 3 for 1996/1997.

Figure 13

Annual Volume of Pesticide Usage

Total U.S. Volume, by Type, 1979-1997

Stacked Area Graph: Millions of Pounds of AI by Year. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 13)

Table 14a (1 of 2)

U.S. Annual Volume of Pesticide Usage,

Agriculture Sector

By Type, 1979-1988 (Millions of pounds of active ingredient)


Pesticide Type	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
Herbicides	492	504	513	503	455	516	501	481	425	450
Insecticides	188	163	152	142	135	129	126	121	90	100
Fungicides	57	59	62	59	59	56	59	59	52	54
Other Conv.	106	100	104	101	100	100	94	94	91	95
Other Chems.	246	227	215	207	196	194	194	188	180	177
Total	1,089	1,053	1,046	1,012	945	995	974	943	838	876

Source: EPA/OPP/BEAD estimates, updated 3/97 for 1979-95 (previous estimates obsolete); Table 3 for 1996/1997.

Table 14a (2 of 2)

U.S. Annual Volume of Pesticide Usage,

Agriculture Sector

By Type, 1989-1997 (Millions of pounds of active ingredient)


Pesticide Type	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Herbicides	460	455	440	450	425	485	461	481	470
Insecticides	95	90	85	90	80	90	91	84	82
Fungicides	54	50	47	45	47	48	49	51	53
Other Conv.	113	133	144	150	154	163	170	190	165
Other Chems.	161	164	140	161	166	163	168	152	174
Total	883	892	856	896	872	949	939	958	944

Source: EPA/OPP/BEAD estimates, updated 3/97 for 1979-95 (previous estimates obsolete); Table 3 for 1996/1997.

Figure 14c

U.S. Annual Volume of Pesticide Usage in
Home and Garden

By Type, 1979-1997

Stacked Area Graph: Millions of Pounds of AI by Year. (This chart depicts the data as presented in Table 14c)

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