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The fao pesticides use database is online here it includes several datasets on pesticides for countries and world regions since 1990 the faos pesticides trade database goes back to 1961 and is online here. List of countries in the workd by pesticide use in tons and kg per hectare of cropland link to historical chart and more food and agriculture statistics. A world directory of poisons centres is maintained other activities include the provision of information on chemicals the provision of information management tools and the development of internationally peer reviewed guidelines concerning the prevention and clinical management of poisoning the ipcs intox programme. Top pesticide consuming countries china the number one consumer of pesticides is china where 3981548455 pounds are applied every year china was one of the first nations to begin using pesticides copying us practices and relies on its application for rice crops in particular experts suggest that its current use surpasses safe levels