Table 17
Pesticide application strategies, Canada and provinces
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| Pesticide application strategy | Pesticide applied by: | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All pesticides | Applied organic pesticide | Applied chemical pesticide | Household member 1 | Lawn mainte- nance company 1 |
Someone else 1 | |||||
| Regular schedule 1 | To address a specific problem 1 | Both regular maintenance and to address a specific problem 1 | Regular schedule 2 | To address a specific problem 2 | Regular schedule 3 | To address a specific problem 3 | ||||
| percent | ||||||||||
| Canada | 39 | 61 | 2 | 45 | 54 | 38 | 63 | 70 | 27 | 3 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 36 | 65 | F | F | F | 39 E | 59 | 76 | F | F |
| Prince Edward Island | F | 79 | F | F | F | F | 76 | 82 | F | F |
| Nova Scotia | 32 | 66 | F | F | F | F | 70 | 82 | F | F |
| New Brunswick | 40 | 56 | F | F | F | 40 | 54 | 68 | 26 | F |
| Quebec | 46 | 52 | F | 52 | 46 | F | 82 | 52 | 45 | F |
| Ontario | 47 | 54 | 3 | 47 | 55 | 46 | 54 | 63 | 35 | 3 E |
| Manitoba | 28 | 73 | F | F | 65 | 27 | 73 | 81 | 17 | F |
| Saskatchewan | 33 | 68 | F | F | F | 34 | 67 | 86 | 11 E | F |
| Alberta | 29 | 72 | F | F | 76 | 31 | 70 | 85 | 13 | F |
| British Columbia | 31 | 68 | F | 32 | 63 | 32 | 68 | 81 | 17 | F |
As a percentage of those households who applied
either chemical or organic fertilizer.
As a percentage of those households that applied
only organic pesticides.
As a percentage of those households who applied
only chemical pesticides.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, Households
and the Environment Survey, 2007, CANSIM Table 153-0064.
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