Pesticide production is on the rise in Russia
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As the Federal State Statistics Service reports, during the ten months period of this year, the production of herbicides in Russia increased by 30.4% to 78.7 thousand tons, fungicides by 12.6% to 26.5 thousand tons.
In October, the production of herbicides amounted to 5.6 thousand tons, having increased by 34.4% compared to the same month in 2019, however, their output decreased by 1.7% compared to September 2020. The production of fungicides reached 2.3 thousand tons, having increased by 14.4% to the result of October 2019 and by 29% to September 2020.